Educate. Engage. Unite.
The intent of the semiquincentennial schools program is to:
- Ensure that all K-12 students are familiar with the founding principles of our Declaration of Independence: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Particular attention will be paid to defining what the Founders meant by “the pursuit of Happiness,” based on a book by Jeffrey Rosen titled, The Pursuit of Happiness. Rosen focuses on the Founders’ understanding of this phrase – a life of virtue, rigor, and discipline that benefits others as well as oneself.
- Identify how and why these principles have been important in Alabama’s history (a potential shift to the efforts of the civil rights movement).
- Identify how these principles will continue to be important, not only to Americans and the United States but to people and nations around the world.
The Pursuit of Happiness
K-Grade 2
The Pursuit of Happiness
Grades 3-5
The Pursuit of Happiness
Grades 6-8
The Pursuit of Happiness
Grades 9-12
Character Education: Benjamin Franklin’s Virtues: Order
Character Education: Benjamin Franklin’s Virtues: Temperance
Our American Stories
Phillis Wheatley: The first published African American poet
Emerging Revolutionary War
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Sons of the American Revolution: Revolutionary War Rarities Podcasts/Videos on YouTube
Season 1
- Episode 1: A Name Few of Us Know
- Episode 2: Communicating in Battle
- Episode 3: The Boot
- Episode 4: Sweet Lips
- Episode 5: Founding Youth
- Episode 6: The Colonial Prince
- Episode 7: The Big Marblehead
- Episode 8: The Pack on Their Back
- Episode 9: The Busted Bell
- Episode 10: Benjamin Franklin’s Other Names
- Episode 11: Therapeutic Phlebotomy or Bloodletting
- Episode 12: The Law of Averages
- Episode 13: The Notorious Offenders from Weare
- Episode 14: The Brothers Jay
- Episode 15: The Deane From Groton
- Episode 16: Two Strong Women
- Episode 17: New Jersey 1777
- Episode 18: The Father of the Revolution
- Episode 19: It Still Exists
- Episode 20: Dr. Who
- Episode 21: Eight Men Out
- Episode 22: Trumbulls Everywhere
- Episode 23: $8.1 Million Dollars
- Episode 24: Say What?
Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution
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