ClassroomCorps
Participation, Partnership, emPowerment, Pride - in America

••• Part 2 - later grade school (work in class room and outside field trips)

Review of Part 1

Who are we really?

What does bring an American mean?

A discussion on "integrity:

Do people in other countries feel the same way?

Guest lecturers - a historian, a fire department EMT, a K-9 unit

Democracy as we practice it is unique

Three branches of Federal Government - Executive, Legislative, Judicial

How does a State work? A City?

It takes all kinds of government employees

Private citizens can help in many ways

Decisions are made by those who show up

Visits to City Hall, a court room, a police / fire station

Community groups .. Cub Scouts, Brownies, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Boys and Girls Clubs, church groups

Others?

Helping at a clean up

Helping at a senior center / hospital

Intro to Neighborhood Watch

Ongoing discussion of how we volunteer

Projects - research / writing and rehearsal of historically based skits / plays to present to school