Morning Announcements

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Morning Announcements
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Morning Announcements

• The Pledge of Allegiance
• The Texas Pledge
• Dan F. Long Creed
• One minute of silence
• FBN announcements

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Expectations for students

• Participate, or remain silent
• Listen to the announcements they are for YOU,
  not the teachers!
• Be respectful of your classmates

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The Pledge to the Texas Flag

• Honor the Texas flag.
• I pledge allegiance tothee, Texas,
• One, and indivisible.

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The Pledge to the National Flag
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Why do we honor flags?
What does it mean to pledge allegiance to this
country?
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What is happening in these pictures?
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Why are they holding the American flag?
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Do you know what the Pledge of Allegiance really
means?

• I pledge allegiance

• I promise to be loyal

• to the flag of the United States of America,

• to the flag of the United States of America,

• and to the Republic

• and I promise to be loyal to the country and type
  of government that the flag stands for

• for which it stands,

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Do you know what the Pledge of Allegiance really
means?

• one nation

• a single country

• under God,

• a country that obeys and honors a Supreme Being,

• indivisible,

• a country that will never be divided

• with liberty, and justice, for all.

• and a country where there is freedom and fairness
  for everyone.

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Think about it!

• The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892, 400
  years after Christopher Columbusdiscovered
  America, and 30 years after the nation nearly
  tore itself in two during the Civil War.

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Think about it!

• What Francis Bellamy was trying to say was that
  we can never let such things happen again! That
  we are one country, forever.

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Think about it!

• Bellamy also knew that Americas constitution
  promised freedom and fairness for all people, but
  that too many people were still not being treated
  fairly.

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Think about it!

• Thats why Bellamy included the words "with
  liberty and justice for all." He wanted Americans
  to help their country live up to its promises.

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Think about it!

• Think about these words the next time you pledge
  allegiance to the flag.
• Remember that you are promising to be loyal to
  the ideas that make America a special place.
• And that means helping your country this
  country where we are all immigrants -- to be its
  very best.

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Credits

• The author of this publication would like to
  thank
• History Alive for the text, interpretation, and
  facts regarding the history of the Pledge of
  Allegiance
• The Texas State Library and archives for the text
  of the Texas Pledge and
• Acclaim Images http//www.acclaimimages.comfor
  the beautiful royalty-free pictures.