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Obama to make unprecedented address to all public school students

Posted August 27th, 2009 by Misfit4Peace Obama to make unprecedented address to all public school students on September 8

The long march continues apace as Great Leader drives us toward the new America with nationalized everything.. .if you have a strong stomach read the word.docs linked below with recommended classroom activities before and after the speech (be warned, if you love the Constitution you will want to barf)

In a recent interview with student reporter

Damon Weaver, President Obama announced that on September 8 - the first day of school for many children across America - he will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of education. The President will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens.

Since taking office, the President has repeatedly focused on education, even as the country faces two wars, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and major challenges on issues like energy and health care. The President believes that education is a critical part of building a new foundation for the American economy. Educated people are more active civically and better informed on issues affecting their lives, their families and their futures.

This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's school children about persisting and succeeding in school. We encourage you to use this historic moment to help your students get focused and begin the school year strong. I encourage you, your teachers, and students to join me in watching the President deliver this address on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. It will be broadcast live on the White House website http://www.whitehouse.gov... at 1:00 p.m. eastern standard time.

In advance of this address, we would like to share the following

resources: a menu of classroom activities for students in grades preK-6

http://www.ed.gov/teacher... and for students in grades 7-12 http://www.ed.gov/teacher... . These are ideas developed by and for teachers to help engage students and stimulate discussion on the importance of education in their lives. We are also staging a student video contest on education. Details of the video contest will be available on our website

U.S. Department of Education Home Page in the coming weeks.

On behalf of all Americans, I want to thank our educators who do

society's most important work by preparing our children for work and for

life. No other task is more critical to our economic future and our

social progress. I look forward to working with you in the months and

years ahead to continue improving the quality of public education we

provide all of our children.

Sincerely,

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The Pre K-6 Word Document

PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America

Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education

September 8, 2009

Before the Speech:

Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions:

Who is the President of the United States?

What do you think it takes to be President?

To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking?

Why do you think he wants to speak to you?

What do you think he will say to you?

Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.

Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?

During the Speech:

As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:

What is the President trying to tell me?

What is the President asking me to do?

What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?

Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?

Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.

After the Speech:

Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.

Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:

What do you think the President wants us to do?

Does the speech make you want to do anything?

Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?

What would you like to tell the President?

Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest.† On September 8th the Department will invite K-12 students to submit a video no longer than 2 min, explaining why education is important and how their education will help them achieve their dreams.††Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into an assignment. More details will be released via www.ed.gov.

Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students

Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.

Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.

Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community.

Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.

Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.

Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.

Graph student progress toward goals.

Taken From The Yahoo Group The Fine Print

......y'all should really join this group

[Guest logicprevails]

Yup. Looks like a 4 day weekend for my kid.

[Guest clsutton21]

Yup. Looks like a 4 day weekend for my kid.

I don't see what's so bad about it...

The President will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens.

Are you against education, logicprevails? Or are you just jumping on the hate wagon because it's the cool thing?

[Guest HexHead]

Yup. Looks like a 4 day weekend for my kid.

Take him the range that day.

[Guest bkelm18]

I see nothing wrong with this. Seems like more of the same old fear mongering from the right. God forbid a highly visible and prominent figure tells our kids to stay in school and study hard. The horror.

[Chief07]

More propaganda to indocternate the youth of America.

Keep your kid home that day.

I'll bet he is using our tax money to put this on.

This nut job has to go. (can you say Hugo Chevaz)?

[Guest logicprevails]

I don't see what's so bad about it...

Are you against education, logicprevails? Or are you just jumping on the hate wagon because it's the cool thing?

Troll

[Mike.357]

God forbid a highly visible and prominent figure tells our kids to stay in school and study hard.

That is pretty much word for word what I thought when I read it.

Almost impossible to believe a President has never done this before.

[Guest logicprevails]

Are you against education, logicprevails? Or are you just jumping on the hate wagon because it's the cool thing?

I am for education. I am not for the promulgation of a cult of personality via an inappropriate, unprecedented forum by any president. Hate has nothing to do with it. I am not for overreaching government in any form or fashion. Therefore, it would be inconsistent with my values to merely dismiss my alarm for the overreach.

Nice that you would assume to know me and my intentions, though.

Edited September 2, 2009 by logicprevails

[Guest logicprevails]

Wife acknowledges that i'm not into the 'cool' thing, also

Edited September 2, 2009 by logicprevails

[poak]

I'd be really pissed if he told them not to use drugs... especially if he provided them with an over simplified specific verbal tactic to refuse drugs when offered.

[Guest logicprevails]

Take him the range that day.

It's a 'her', but great idea!

[Guest logicprevails]

I'd be really pissed if he told them not to use drugs... especially if he provided them with an over simplified specific verbal tactic to refuse drugs when offered.

Again, the message is not the issue here. I can teach that at home. As a matter of fact, I can teach the concept of 'do well in school, and achieve your goals' better than someone who isn't the parent of my child. The concern here is the overreach of a particular activist, socialist government into a medium that is unprecedented. If I recall, Reagan's education dept did not send out curriculum 'suggestions' to the masses and impose himself into the schools via a mass broadcast. As innocuous as the message is (this time) the forum, is in my view, inappropriate. I do screen what my child watches on the tube; and discuss with her teacher the goals, methods and means of her education.

Edited September 2, 2009 by logicprevails

[greenego]

The President will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens.

If the President stays with this I see no harm. If he tries to get the students to encourage their parents to support his policies such as climate control and health care reform, then we have a BIG problem.

[56FordGuy]

I don't have an issue with the President of the United States telling kids to stay in school and study hard.

However, the fact that Barrack Obama is the man doing it makes me suspicious. I don't fully trust anything that he proposes, because everything he has attempted to do during his time in office has served only to push this country further toward socialism. Why should we believe that this will be any different?

[USMCJG]

I don't think politics belong in education at all. But they are already there, so whatever.

[Guest logicprevails]

I don't think politics belong in education at all. But they are already there, so whatever.

Apathy is why we are having 'change' forced down our gullets.

I would like to thank you for your service, just noticed.

Edited September 2, 2009 by logicprevails

[TripleDigitRide]

I will allow my daughter to watch this. I plan on doing the same. Then, I plan on sitting down with her to splain anything that needs splainin'.

[USMCJG]

Apathy is why we are having 'change' forced down our gullets.

I would like to thank you for your service, just noticed.

Don't misunderstand me, I am not apathetic. I'm just extremely frustrated at the moment. I write and email my congressmen regularly and try to be as involved as possible, but they aren't listening. The only two things that speak to most politicians are money and power, and I have neither. I have often wondered what it would be like to be a billionaire and be able to purchase a couple of congressmen to do my bidding, but it doesn't look like that will ever happen.

[Guest logicprevails]

Don't misunderstand me, I am not apathetic. I'm just extremely frustrated at the moment. I write and email my congressmen regularly and try to be as involved as possible, but they aren't listening. The only two things that speak to most politicians are money and power, and I have neither. I have often wondered what it would be like to be a billionaire and be able to purchase a couple of congressmen to do my bidding, but it doesn't look like that will ever happen.

My apologies for misunderstanding. I feel your frustration, too. Unfortunately, they are supposed to work for us and not the gravy train. Keep reminding them, and hopefully we'll send them a loud mid-term message.

[USMCJG]

My apologies for misunderstanding. I feel your frustration, too. Unfortunately, they are supposed to work for us and not the gravy train. Keep reminding them, and hopefully we'll send them a loud mid-term message.

No problem Logic, I understand what you meant. I guess the satisfaction of representing their constituents and upholding the Constitution doesn't quite give them the same satisfaction that a big bank account and cushy job for life does. I too am hoping America wakes up and sends a strong message to a bunch of these socialists and career politicians in 2010. Edited September 2, 2009 by USMCJG

[Guest Swamprunner]

I will probably have to keep my grandson home that day, because at 12 years old, he will probably something inappropriate, like he's a communist or or the like, and I will end up having to pick him up, anyway. Why are these kids being subjected to politics?

[Guest FroggyOne2]

clsutton and bkelm18, to me.. you two come off as left wing plants and bkelm18, I have never seen you say anything positive.. and it appauls me that you hate corpsman so much.. too bad you didn't have a better time in the Navy. I don't trust what the "O" man is going to say either.. being nothing more than a rabble rouser, I would gather that he will say something inappropriate to our nations children..

Logicprevails, I like the way you think! USMCJG.. From a former Navy Corpsman, thank you for your service to our great nation.. I am very proud of you. If I ever see you in person.. please let me shake your hand! Semper Fi my friend.

[Guest clsutton21]

I will probably have to keep my grandson home that day, because at 12 years old, he will probably something inappropriate, like he's a communist or or the like, and I will end up having to pick him up, anyway. Why are these kids being subjected to politics?

No one ever said it was about politics. It's a well-known, respected public figure telling children to do well in school so that they will be competitive in the global economy. If your grandson calls him a communist, then I don't think he deserves to be in public school...because after all, it is government funded.

[Guest clsutton21]

clsutton and bkelm18, to me.. you two come off as left wing plants and bkelm18, I have never seen you say anything positive.. and it appauls me that you hate corpsman so much.. too bad you didn't have a better time in the Navy. I don't trust what the "O" man is going to say either.. being nothing more than a rabble rouser, I would gather that he will say something inappropriate to our nations children..

Logicprevails, I like the way you think! USMCJG.. From a former Navy Corpsman, thank you for your service to our great nation.. I am very proud of you. If I ever see you in person.. please let me shake your hand!

I'm no "left wing plant" as you call me, I just know that there are times to pick your fights; this is not a time to fight. Let the man speak, if he says that he wants the kids to stay in school and learn, then he's fine; on the other hand, if he makes us look at spirals and tells us that he is our god, then we have a problem. Let's just wait to see what happens, eh?