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Veteran’s Day Activity

B: Identify rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the United States that are important for preserving democratic government.

Materials: Map of your state, Push pins, List of fallen soldiers from your state (found at []), Graphic Organizer, Veterans Day by Mir Tamim Ansary

Procedure: Read the book, Veterans Day by Mir Tamim Ansary, to the class. Have students fill out a graphic organizer with information from the book while you read to them. Have a class discussion using some of the following questions: When is Veterans Day celebrated? Why is Veterans Day celebrated? What is a Veteran? Go to // [] //. At this website, scroll down to the search engine, put in the state in which you live and start the search. The list will come up with ten names at a time of all the servicemen and women who were killed in the Vietnam War. Place the soldier’s names and city they are from into a list. Split the class into groups and give each group a list of names. Pass out push pins to the groups. Place a map of the state in which you are teaching in on the bulletin board. Each group goes to the bulletin board with the map of the state and have the students put a push pin in for each soldier who lost their life in the Vietnam War. When everyone has placed the push pins into the map have students take a look at how many soldiers lost their lives from our state alone. Have a class discussion on the responsibilities of protecting rights of other people, including in other countries. this activity reenforces the responsibilities of citizens, including enlisting in the armed forces to protect the rights of all citizens at all costs, including giving their lives.

Another standard this book could be used for is History. ​