Greatness is our history and future. The tree, like our country, is bountiful and life-giving it is strong like America. We pass on to you the most sacred of our possessions, that which has been defended with blood for the past 224 years, the power of the people. Our 5th grade class voted on freedom to best represent U.S. history in the past and at the end of the 20th century. We choose freedom because it gives us the power to live, learn, and love.
Freedom is the best thing everyone has ever had or ever known.
Jenks Oklahoma students chose the eagle to represent freedom because it is a symbol of the past, the present and will endure in the future. They worked with their art teacher to create an eagle out of construction and origami paper. Each feather is made of origami paper and on it is written a freedom or a right enjoyed by a student in the class. They recorded a song about an eagle they learned in music class and added two original paragraphs explaining their choice of the eagle and the importance of freedom. Wisconsin Gibraltar Middle School, Fish Creek Wisconsin students submitted seeds accompanied by an original poem which explains how the seeds represent democracy, freedom, equality, liberty, justice and peace.