My American Creed

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

By Nathan S. from B. Michael Caudill Middle School in Kentucky

Mom's a pharmacist 

She stops illness from spreading

So people won't die


Father helps kids read

So they grow up to succeed

And not fail in life

Uncle owns a shop

He grows the economy

By selling things cheap

Sister teaches kids

So they are intelligent

And live a great life

Family is from

The country of Ireland

Moved to Kentucky

B. Michael Caudill Middle School

The Grady Bunch

7th Grade American History wannabes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

AMERICA!!!

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

My American Creed

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

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.

American Creed: Acrostic Poem

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

My American Creed

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

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.

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.

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

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.

American Creed free verse poetry

what is your fate in/ for America.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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Caitlynn's Creed

This slide show is a collection of words that describe my American Creed.

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We Americans express our American Creed by using words, symbols, or rituals to express our thanks to soldiers.

My American Creed

For my American creed project I wrote a poem. My poem answers the question “What is your American creed?” My poem explains my American creed and it describes how I feel using three of my keywords. My keywords are tragedy, optimism, and home.

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My words of American Creed

These words symbolise my American Creed, they all mean something to me. Freedom shows everyone has free rights. Equality shows everyone is equal. Dreams shows that everyone can believe what they want. Independence contributes to all of the other three words before independence.

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My American Creed was done via Minecraft. To be an American means to have freedom, responsibility, and a dream.

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.

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Ryan´s American Creed

This is about my American Creed.

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Alisha's American Creed

Being American means you have the ability to be who you want, do what you want to do, and remake yourself as long as you work hard. You have the right to equal opportunity and to express yourself. It means to accept it's not always about you.

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What Your Family and Community Really Mean to American Creed

Throughout this essay, I focus on my Irish family history and military community to describe a personal meaning of American Creed, and what life is like in the United States today.

Dear America

America break up letter.

From Discrimination to Immigration; My Jewish American Creed

In order to understand how my family has affected the way I view my own American creed, I conducted interviews with my mother, father, and grandmother. Ultimately my goal was to figure out, connect, and contrast on how my family history has affected my American Creed.

My American Creed

Americans should strive to succeed to improve their own lives and make a difference in their communities.

Just world

This piece is about the American dream of equal opportunity. This work is specifically focused on the just world hypothesis and how it leads to the misconception that is the American dream.

Demonstrating Your American Creed By Doing Your American Deed

My Op-Ed is about ways you are able to show what your American Creed is through different forms of actions.

My American Creed

What American Creed means to Me:

My American Creed

My American Creed is what I see in America everyday. I wake up everyday not knowing what will happen that day, week, month or even that year. It's so many bad things happening in America that it just scares me. I just hope we all can help better America and it's sad habits.

American Creed

Symbols, Rituals and the American Creed

Fresh Start

The process of the digital story was very eye-opening. Along the way, I’ve learned so much about myself. I found all of this out by researching. I have discovered things my family didn’t even know until now!

A Country of Immigrants

Through the experiences of talking to my mother, who was born and raised and Ukraine, I came to learn an important lesson on what it means to be "American".

What America Means to Me

My piece is simply about how my relatives of the past struggled in their home land and moved to America despite all the difficulties and dangers they faced. They saw America as a land of opportunity and freedom and I wrote this piece to honor them and spread their story.

Being Black in America

This is a short video explaining my perception of being a young black man in America and my view on our country's history of what it was being black in America. Has there been much progress? Is there still more progress to be made?

What It Means to be an American

What it means to be an American and what rights and privilages you get.

The Hand Me Down That I Will Never Outgrow

I expressed my ideas by writing about my family’s work ethic and personal connections to patients and customers. This helps one become successful not only in the business world, but in life. My family’s morals helped me developed a creed for my own.

A Family's Story

Pricila J. explores her family's American story through the eyes of her grandfather.

My American Creed

My American Creed is my support system because of the way it helped shape the young adult I am. This system consists of my family and teachers. It is my American Creed because of how much value they have to me.

What Stories Describe Our American Creed (Added by Mr H)

A discussion of how some of the stories from the PBS film "American Creed" speak to the nature of what American is all about (Added by Mr H)

American Opportunity

An evaluation of the American stereotype

How does your family connect to my American Creed.

I state how important education is to my family. I will talk about how education is the key to success.

Family And The American Creed

I believe the makeup behind one's American Creed is rooted strongly from their family and homelife. Families can often be complex and confusing, but they are an essential factor to an American Creed.

American Creed

My essay is about what it means about being an American.

An American Medley (Poetry)

Composed by Mia Colony and Sydney Stephens. Poems Used: "We Leave To-Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Growing Up" by E.H. "How Would You Describe America?" is an original poem by Mia Colony and Abe Frank.

The American Dream

The idealogy of the American Dream.

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