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 * [[image:julyfour_waver.gif width="172" height="179" align="left"]]Click below for a printed version of our Digital Story: **




 * Summary of the Digital Story: **

Our story is about an immigrant who came to the United States when she was ten years old. She is reminiscing of her experience during her first few years in the US and how she came to better understand the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen. This initial experience impacts her life profoundly.

During the digital story, she shares how she felt about coming to a new country. She reflects upon her early days of learning about the US Pledge, the National Anthem, the Bill of Rights, and beautiful places in her new country. She is overwhelmed with her new feelings that she is part of such a great country and ponders how she as a child can contribute in making the country even better. She decides to make patriotic beaded bracelets to sell so she can donate the money to her school. She requests that the principal use the money to replace the school's old flag with a larger, brighter, newer one. Through this experience, she develops new friendships and gains a better understanding of citizenship.

*Who: An immigrant who became a U.S. citizen who tells her story as she reflects back upon her childhood early days in the United States

*Where: Reflects about events that happened at her first school

*When: During her first school experience in the U.S. which was her Fifth Grade year

*Why: To develop an understanding of what citizenship means and each citizen’s responsibility to make the country a better place to live

*How: Through selling bracelets that she and her friends made, she raised money to donate so the school could buy a new, larger flag, thereby, demonstrating her pride and responsibility as a citizen