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Obama To Give Speech To Nation’s School Children September 8
September, 1, 2009 — nicedeb

Just when you thought this administration couldn’t get any creepier, it has outdone itself:

President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009
PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009

Before the Speech:
• Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions:
Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be President?
To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
What do you think he will say to you?
• Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.
• Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the Speech:
• As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?

There’s much more on the PDF file, including suggestions for teachers to assign classroom projects like having the children “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make the children accountable to their goals”.

Are they kidding me?! Not just no, but HELL NO!!!!

Obama to make Sept 9 speech to Congress

September 04, 2009 By: Freedom Fighter Category: Uncategorized

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, seeking to breathe new life into his drive to remake US health care, will address a rare joint session of the US Congress on September 9, congressional aides said Wednesday.

The speech will come one day after lawmakers return from a month-long August break, during which Obama’s approval ratings slipped and doubts appeared to grow about his embattled efforts to extend medical care to more Americans.

The aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Obama had accepted an invitation from Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid to address Congress.

“Our nation is closer than ever to achieving health insurance reform that will lower costs, retain choice, improve quality and expand coverage. We are committed to reaching this goal,” Pelosi and Reid wrote to the president.

“We would like to invite you to address a Joint Session of the Congress on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 on health insurance reform,” they said in a letter made public by their offices.