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 Two: The New Deal

- Fireside Chat (1938)

Room Two: The New Deal

- Second Inaugural (1937)

“The Breadline”

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

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