Post on 19-Dec-2015
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Memorials & Presidents:Lesson Planning on the DC Trip
Steve Estes
History in Stone
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDR Memorial Site Plan
FDR Sculpture (added in 2001)
Room One: The Depression
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”- First Inaugural Address (1933)
Room Three: World War II
Room Three: World War II
“I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.”
- New York Speech (1936)
Room Three: World War II
“We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.”
—Fireside Chat (December 1940)
Room Four: Legacies
Other Stones, Other Stories
Lincoln Memorial
Washington Monument
Design a Monument Choose: John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill
Clinton, or George W. Bush Realistic or Abstract Steel, Stone, and/or Bronze No more than 40 feet tall, 400 square feet at base On the Tidal Basin or a grassy slope of the Mall Depict the words or ideals of the president Represent his positive contributions to US history