Land of Opportunity

I wrote a poem about diverse Americans' understanding of the American creed. My poem expresses the unity that has been formed between immigrants and American citizens. It also shows that immigrants can come from humble beginnings and still become something great, as long as they

By Grady B. from B. Michael Caudill Middle School in Kentucky

This country

Our country

The melting pot of the world

A place where several cultures can come together 

And live together

In unison

In peace

New ideas can be spread through cultures

Which can help push our nation forward

These people of other cultures

Came here 

Seeking a new life

A life with new hope ahead

They came

Here 

America

The land of opportunity

This is still true of our nation today

It still is 

Filled with opportunity 

For anyone

Anyone

Who is willing to put forth the hard work

That's what our nation is all about

Hard work

No matter where you're from

No matter where you're going 

Hard work will get you where you want to be

No matter your race 

Or age

We are all 

Americans

And we all have American creed




B. Michael Caudill Middle School

The Grady Bunch

7th Grade American History wannabes

American Creed and my Family Relations

With my past being linked to America and the jobs my family have done and still do, can connect to my American Creed by helping America with agriculture, service, and determination to show the American way.

American Creed free verse poetry

what is your fate in/ for America.

I AM AMERICAN

My project is a poem about my American creed and being American. Being American is about having opportunity, freedom, and a chance at new life.

AMERICA!!!

I created this poster to express my belief of what my american creed is and how it affects me and other people.

Why I am American

This is how me and my family have helped out in the community of people who were less fortunate than others, or are growing too old to be able to help themselves, or people who have been hurt in a battle or other accident.

American Creed

My poem is about civil rights, individuality, and capability as people of our nation.

My American Creed

My American Creed centers around the idea of individual freedoms. Everyone should have the right and opportunity to pursue their dreams. No person should ever feel unimportant in this world. We should all feel like our chance is waiting for us to achieve our American Dream.

Interviewing students about what represents their American Creed, along with Patriotic phrases

My American Creed is expressed through words like freedom of faith, speech, press. These rights are the basic foundation of our beloved country. We participate in rituals such as saying the pledge of allegiance to our country.

Kenny's American Creed

This is a drawing of my American Creed. It represents life in America. I made it about plants because plants are usually a representation of life.

Emma's American Creed

I believe that the American Creed comes from the opportunity Americans are provided with to choose your own future. For example, when Americans graduate high school, they have the choice to go to college or not, and if they go to college then they can choose what line of work the

American Creed

My version american dream is free education, justice in court, and democracy as a government.

What Makes me American

Being American to me is about using my freedom.I can use my freedom to do service to my community.I can use my freedom to do many other fun things.Using my freedom is what makes me American.

American Creed: Acrostic Poem

This poem that I have made is what I believe my American Creed is.

My American Creed

My Google Slide presentation is about how America is defined by our diversity, equality, and opportunity.

My American Creed

Summary: This poem is about how my family has served as Americans and as members of the community and how we plan to keep serving as Americans.

American Creed

American Creed is where people get to be who they want to be. And it's mostly about freedom and what people get to do with their freedom.

My American Creed

My speech is about my personal American creed and what it means to me. What I believe makes me American is my freedom, responsibility, and equality. Everyone in America is held to the same standard and has the same opportunity to achieve greatness.

My American Creed

I believe the American Creed is having the opportunity to help out the members of our community when they are in need.

My American Creed

These poems show how my community, family, and family origins strengthen my American Creed.

My American Creed

My essay portrays my American Creed, which correlates with the ideas crucial in the founding of America.

American Creed

My poem is about how America is full of opportunity and you don’t have to agree with everyone. How you have the same chance to accomplish your dream as everyone else, as long as you put in work. Where you can have your own opinion and practice your own religion. key: opportunity

More responses from B. Michael Caudill Middle School

Surprise Me

American Creed Project

This presentation is about my American Creed.

My American Creed

To me, being an American is my sense of community, my opportunities, and my individualism. Being an American is to overcome. More importantly to overcome as one, united nation.

My Creed

American Creed

American Creed

This is a poem about how Amercians should have freedom, passion , and respect.

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In this project I used words that are important to me as an American to describe what it means to be an American.

My American Creed

In America we have the ability to have responsibility, opportunity, and freedom. America wouldn’t be America without these three words. This is why I’m proud to be an American.

My American Creed

This poster has symbols that express my American Creed.

Our Family's American Creed

There are many ways I connect to the American creed. I connect by my Native Americans heritage, my grandparents who served, and also our grandparents who made many contributes to Kentucky.

MY AMERICAN CREED Jacob Sommers

My American Creed project for the end of the school year. I put the three keywords: Fragility, Opportunity, and Diversity. These are important because they describe what America is all about and what we are.

Kyras Creed

This is my song for American creed

My American Creed

This is a presentation that I created that describes what makes me an American.

What is my American Creed

My poster explains my American Creed because it shows four words and the meaning to my American Creed. It shows what the words mean to my American Creed.

More responses about "peace", "together", and "unity"

Surprise Me

Not As One, But As All United

This is my op-ed essay on the importance of working on uniting to solve our problems.

What Makes the American People

My focus will be on how cultural diversity and how it brings the people together

American Creed

No matter who you are you have the same privileges to check out as many as book you like. Instead of people decimalizing on other races, age, or religion we could improve on working our skills as a citizen to make our nation stronger

Honest Abe

We had to pick someone from history that represents American Creed. I picked Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln has done so anything for this country so I thought he was an example of American Creed.

America, My Home

This essay is about what American creed means to me.

Unity Through the American Creed

We are divided as a people, but through listening and bringing people together, regardless of who they are, we will become closer.

Honor and Integrity

My American Creed

Unite, Not Divide

My opinion piece on why we need to look at what we have in common and unite

Is America Changing for the Better

As we progress as a society, we experience many changes - some of which are good, while others are bad. Miguel C., Tyler J. and Paul B. interviewed Americans who have experienced these changes first hand to find the answer to their question.

Ukulele of Unity

What does it mean to be American? Well, it takes more than one string to play a note, more than one fret to build a neck, and more than one person to be a band...

As a Whole

As a very small community, in the deep south, where we drink sweet tea sitting on the porch and say “y’all” in every sentence, we stick together as a whole through everything.

The UNITED states

My essay is not just my American creed but also how we as a people can implement it in our daily lives.

Light In Action

I believe that opportunity is what makes the United States so special. Just because we are granted opportunity, does not mean success is easily achieved. Part of my American Creed is that nothing comes easy and we must be selfless by helping one another out.

Small Town Anthem

While trying to go about their ordinary lives amidst a backdrop of polarization, divisiveness, and conversations around injustice, everyday Americans in small towns must look inwards to find what brings them closer together.

Learning What it Means to be an American in New York City

In one trip, I learned some of the most important values of what it truly means to be an American.

My American Creed

My American creed is unity. Without unity we have nothing.

My American Creed

This is how my american creed connects to my family and my community.

Americanism and Individuality

Americans gather with like-minded people, but respect the opinions of others

Education and America

We as Americans should pay heed to the perspectives presented in this documentary. Instead, our society should be encouraged to focus on unity. In order to accomplish this goal, we need to properly educate the future generations.

American Creed

The importance of small town events and impacting others.

Are We TRULY Equal ?

The American Flag symbolizes our nations strength and unity, but we still tend to judge by sight instead of knowledge.

My American Creed

My American Creed is about how the words Difference, Struggles, and Together makes me American. Difference means that we are all different. Struggles means that sometimes people need help and struggle. Together means that we can accept people.

American Teamwork

Our piece talks about teamwork in America, unity, and how it should be more valued in our country

To Achieve Unity

Personal definitions of American Creed can be achieved by taking action, by proposing different ways to insure change. Here is my way of taking part in this change.

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