This is lesson #8 of the text unit series for the text I Pledge of Allegiance. This lesson will build students’ understanding of the pledge, respect, and personal responsibility by creating a whole-group class pledge and a personal pledge. The students will use the text and work together to make a class pledge representing the promise all students will follow in the classroom.

This unit will help students identify or explain rights and responsibilities in their school community, ways to show respect during the Pledge of Allegiance, symbols of the United States, and demonstrate characteristics of responsible decision-making. Students will engage in a read-aloud over several days with lessons emphasizing text features, vocabulary, central idea, and similarities and differences between information provided visually and within the text. In addition, the teacher will facilitate research, students' presentations, and artwork as activities to help students demonstrate their knowledge of respect for the Pledge of Allegiance.

This resource uses a book that is on the Florida Department of Education's reading list. This book is not provided with this resource.