Project Citizen

Project Citizen '19

Project Citizen is a youth writing lab that is offered as part of the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield University. The mission of Project Citizen is to empower young writers to engage in issues of social and political importance through a variety of genres in order to both find their voice and to become fully realized citizens in our democracy. Project Citizen brings together students from school districts and towns in Fairfield county that represent a variety of economic, racial, ethnic, and religious demographic groups in an effort to break down the "zip code apartheid" that stands in the way of true collaborative learning.

Happiness

This is a poem about my cousin, who recently moved.

Why to not celebrate the 4th of July

An explanation of why America wasn't really free when we signed the Declaration of Independence.

A Few Words

The Pledge of Allegiance rewritten

'Murican Creed

The issue of Immigration

No One is Illegal

I wrote this poem to express how I feel about immigration, as an immigrant.

Immigration: Poem of American Creed

A Penny for your Thoughts

This is a poem to get you thinking about how something that seems worthless is actually worth more then you think it is.

We are all Americans

My poem is about what can make us all Americans and even when we all come from different nation.

The Beautiful American Lie

This is about how the American Dream is a lie. I'm not really in any minorities, I just wanted to point all this stuff out.

The Truest Believer

On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the US. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. Domestic abuse is a big problem here in America, this spoken word poem strives to give hope to those victims.

Perfect Lies

This is a song about my American Creed.

I Believe

This are my beliefs and how I feel about the American Creed.

Let's Fight, America

My poem is about fighting for your human rights, and knowing what belongs to you and how to stop it from being taken away.

The Allfather effect

My piece is about the ways that pantheons and ideas have been destructed through time. Some of these beliefs have lasted for hundreds of years but there was never really talk about how or why the believers just stopped believing.

Lights in the future

This poem is about making the choice to not let things get in your way, but instead, trying to make a difference and give hope to the world.

My American Creed

It's just my American Creed

True Vision

This is some of my thoughts about my American reality and how I feel about the the concept of the freedom in American.

Mass incarceration

Ray Nasser and Alex Nemec

Action & Expression

A poem inspired by the American Creed.

American Creed and The Pledge of Allegiance

How the Pledge of Allegiance is a misrepresentation of the American Creed.

Let's Talk, America

This is my response to the concept of an American Creed.

The Reamble

My piece is a black out poem with the Preamble of the constitution.

The Electoral College is Failing America

The Electoral College is why Trump is in Office

It's Hard to Keep Talking

I struggled to write about the idea of American Creed because it's a topic that everybody hears of so many times throughout school. To express personal opinions can only happen so many times. This piece conveys how repetitive it is to keep putting a unique spin on the idea.

More responses from Connecticut

Surprise Me

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.

How does your family & community history connect to your American creed?

My piece is about how my family is connects to my American Creed. In this instance I wrote a photo story explaining how it does. I write about the journey my parents took from Afghanistan to Russia to The United States.

My American Creed

This piece is about what my American Creed is and what it could do for the United States.

The Freedom Song

My American Creed speaks upon my own experiences growing up in Westport, my continued exposure to the arts, and how my family, freedoms, and opportunities have helped to influence my passions.

How Do Diverse Americans Understand The American Creed?

My essay talks about the diversity of the U.S. and how that effects the American Creed. I summarize how The American Dream is not always achievable and how your background effects your American Creed.

It Doesn't Matter Where You Came From

I chose this project because I wanted to further my understanding of all perspectives of what people expect from U.S and how diversity impacts the way people see U.S.I was able to relate the interviews back to myself and my own community by thinking about my own American Creed.

Pop's Story

I wrote a story about my Pop, who grew up in poverty, and how he proves that the American Dream is, in fact, attainable to any American through hard work, perseverance despite wealth, social status, and circumstances at birth.

American Creed Project

How my family and community has shaped my understanding of what it means to be an American

My American Creed

My Creed Is about Patriotism, Citizenship, and hard work. I hope I can love up to these things and be a good American.

The Sculpting Form of Equality

Everybody deserves to be treated equally no matter their race/cultural background. Everyone should also be able to express their feelings and beliefs in order to help others understand their situation.

America: Religious Freedom is a Right

My American Creed is the importance of religious freedom. It is something America offers that gives individuals a sense of security.

My Family's American Creed

The story of my parents and how they have passed their American Creed onto me.

More responses about "america", "creed", "people", and "respect"

Surprise Me

What Does It Mean To Be American?

Being American means that you have freedom to do whatever you believe in. In America you can express how you feel about any topic and you won’t get punished for it. For example, in some countries if you talk bad about the leader, then it’s possible that you would get executed immediately.

America Dream

Everyone has often wondered what "The American Dream" really is; this poem is just a short version of my American Dream.

Writing our Future: My American Creed

My paper talks about the freedoms you have being an American and how you are different from other people.

My American Creed

This is my American Creed; this is about the way others lives are compared to mine. Along with what people should treasure with what is given to them.

Immigration and its Effects on the American Dream

As the daughter of immigrants I have been able to see and get a second-hand experience of how their hardships and battle scars have affected their political and social views. Find out how immigration affects one´s views of the American Dream.

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.

As American as Apple Pie

As Americans, we have inherited a firearm tradition that has grown more and more at odds with modern society. If we are to move forward as Americans, we must critically understand this aspect of our history.

Land of the Free as Symbolic as Can Be

Symbols show up on our lives everyday. America has many objects and items that represent the nation and they all have their own meanings and history.

My Life In America, In The Past 18 Years

This is a piece about my life in the past 18 years in America

American Creed Video Essay

Thoughts on American Creed as shown by robot.

My American Creed

This is an expository essay about what it feels like to be an American.

What Does it Mean to Be an American?

What it means to be an American to me.

American Values

This is a piece by a high school student on the core American Values and what his views are on the subject. And it shows how the values affect people, and what experiences have led to the values.

It's A Choice Not A Necessity.

My poem is about my thoughts, questions and beliefs on the Pledge of Allegiance.

My opinion on the government shutdown

My article is about what happened during the government shutdown and how I and other people view it.

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.

America Dream

Everyone has often wondered what "The American Dream" really is; this poem is just a short version of my American Dream.

Our Progress As A Nation

As a nation, we definitely struggle to collaborate and define our ideals and what our creed actually means, but the overall idea of what the people see our nation stands for is very optimistic and having equal opportunity.

Gen-Z

What is Gen-Z?

Dreams & The Gaps Between

It is time that we come together and talk about our dreams and the gaps between American dreams and American realities.

A Country of Immigrants

A very large majority of the people currently living in America are immigrants, or from immigrant families. Despite the large immigrant population in our countries, we still face challenges prompted by our different backgrounds.

American Creed Essay

I will be explaining what it means to be an American.

A Few Words

The Pledge of Allegiance rewritten

A Few Words

The Pledge of Allegiance rewritten

Writing Our Future: American Creed is part of the National Writing Project’s family of youth publishing projects, all gathered under the Writing Our Future initiative.

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