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THIS IS AMERICA, CHARLIE BROWN:
THE SMITHSONIAN AND THE PRESIDENCY


SUBJECTS --- U.S./Creating the Nation, 1865; and 1929 - 1941
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Disabilities;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Trustworthiness.

Age: 7 - 11; Not Rated; Animated; 25 minutes; 1989; Color



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"This is America, Charlie Brown: The Smithsonian and The Presidency" shows a visit by the Peanuts gang to the Smithsonian. They then talk about the three greatest American Presidents: Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A cartoon Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg address and we are shown a film clip of Roosevelt's first inaugural message: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Children will enjoy this film even if they are not familiar with the Peanuts characters.)

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Tell us something important that President Washington did? Do the same thing for President Lincoln and for FDR.


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