Teach core democratic values with primary source documents, read alouds, social studies-history activities & art lessons.

American Democracy Lessons for a Core Democratic Value: Patriotism

LESSON PLANS FOR PATRIOTISM
Warm-up - Poetic Pause
Read Aloud - Picture Book from your library or bookstore
Explore Democratic Values: Think-Pair-Share
and Document Analysis
Think Piece essay - Discussion of Patriotism
Pencil Power - Identify a problem that needs to be “put right.”
Art Connection activities - Make a maquette.

THINK PIECE ESSAY SAMPLE: For most people through much of human history, Patriotism has meant simply love of the homeland... American patriots study their nation, never miss a chance to vote, and always, always, vote their consciences.

Purchase and download the electonic-booklet in PDF file format. Print copies for your assistants and the students in your classroom. Use the Core Democratic Values lesson plans year after year.

Get the picture book,
The Wall,
at your library or bookstore.

The Core Democratic lesson plans are electronic booklets in PDF format so you can download the files to your hard drive. You can print copies of the teacher's information pages and duplicate the Student Activities pages, documents, and worksheets for all of your students. Use the Core Democratic Values Lesson Plans over and over again each semester.