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Tell us how you or your group plan to participate in our civic festival, September 17 -- see suggestions below...
HOW TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST...
POST A COMMENT HERE: 1) Identify yourself and describe how you or your group will participate; 2) Provide a contact name and email; 3) Ask any questions you have. OR email this same information to valuesandvoices@gmail.com
POST A COMMENT HERE: 1) Identify yourself and describe how you or your group will participate; 2) Provide a contact name and email; 3) Ask any questions you have. OR email this same information to valuesandvoices@gmail.com
Suggestions to participate in "Democracy in the Park":
Older students and adults
can organize activities for younger children such as:
·
Set up popular games during the Revolutionary
era such as graces, hoop and stick, nine pin.
·
Provide a large version of the Preamble for
citizens to add their signature.
·
Provide colonial outfits at a Dress Up station
for unique photo posing.
·
Mural drawing with a patriotic theme
·
Contests, such as memorizing the Preamble or
Bill of Rights
·
Borrow or simulate a voting booth to teach about
the election process
ARTS
•
Wandering minstrels or musicians playing from the bandshell stage… early
American music and patriotic songs
•
Youth or adults in historical costume and character telling about their role in
1787, such as: James or Dolley Madison; Ben Franklin; George or Martha Washington
•
Display posters, letters or crafts students create at school or on site
•
Calligraphy demonstrations and creating souvenir bookmarks
• Put on a skit or puppet show to teach about the Constitution
• Poetry reading and composing to honor our rights &
responsibilities
• Dance: A colonial jig? A circle dance? How to express E Pluribus Unum?
• Balloons, ribbons, flags, festoons
LETTERS
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Express your love of arts, history, political science, philosophy, religious
studies, literature, sociology, or…
• Provide postcards and addresses for writing to our elected
representatives
• Share your history knowledge… (find resources at www.constitutionfacts.com/ and
other sites)
• Quiz the crowd about essential and fun facts about the U.S.
Constitution on its 230th
anniversary
• Learn how to support a community library about the Constitution and
to plan more public conversation events
CITIZENSHIP -- visit https://constitutioncenter.org/ --
our National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
• Record visitors’ answers to “What does democracy mean to you?”
• Speak on a soapbox promoting democracy and issues you care about
• Propose new Constitutional amendments or petitions to local, state,
or federal government
• Review the rights and responsibilities of citizenship; explain the
process to become an American citizen
• Display purpose of your organization or class and future public
events (bring own table and materials as needed)
• Groups may choose one or more delegates to read a section of the
Constitution beginning at 3pm
CHOOSE YOUR WAY TO EXPRESS WHAT
DEMOCRACY MEANS TO YOU.
INTERACT WITH YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS
Celebrate the U.S. Constitution’s 230th Anniversary
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