Reality Lane’s Citizenship (November)

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What is citizenship?

Citizenship is knowing, understanding, and displaying a high regard for rules, laws, government, heritage and for those who have served and sacrificed for community and country.

Suggested Classroom Activities Character Newsletter

How do you demonstrate your citizenship?

1. Being a member of a community (common unit), family, class, school, village, town, city, county,
   state, country (nation), continent, world.
2. Knowing that with every right there is the responsibility to use that right in an appropriate and respectful manner.
3. Choosing to be part of the solution, rather than to be part of the problem.
4. Respecting and abiding by the rules and laws that are designed to make this a better and safer community in which to learn and to live.

Suggested Home Activities:

1. What are our family values as they relate to citizenship?  Patriotism?
2. The Census is coming!  What does your family know about it?  More can be learned in the Newsletter.  It takes Ten Minutes Every Ten Years and is safe and COMPLETELY confidential for 72 years and cannot be shared with anyone, including welfare and immigration agencies.  Census forms will be mailed to every  household in March 2010 and Census Day is April 1, 2010. In Broward County, more than 800,000  housing units will receive the Census! The brief questionnaire takes about 10 minutes to complete, and  asks for the name, gender, age, race, ethnicity and relationship to the householder, and whether the  householder owns or rents their home. We can all demonstrate our citizenship by filling out our census form wherever we are on the day we receive it, regardless of where we live at other times of the year.