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This is the highest award given at Bonneville Elementary. Students in third through sixth grades who fulfill the requirements of citizenship, patriotism, academic excellence, extra-curricular activity and service can earn their Honor Patch. There are four different patches (one for each year). Applications are available in the office.

BONNEVILLE HONOR PATCH - Third Grade

I. Memorize the following quotes and briefly explain what you think the author meant.

Choose ONE of the following quotes by Abraham Lincoln:

● We are as happy as we make up our minds to be.

● The only safe and sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.

The following quote by John F. Kennedy:

● And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country!

Choose THREE of the following quotes by Benjamin Franklin:

● Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

● God helps them that help themselves.

● He that can have patience can have what he will.

● Well done is better than well said.

● A penny saved is a penny earned.

II. Sing or recite the words to the song God Bless America.

1. God bless America, Land that I love.

Stand beside her and guide her

Through the night with a light from above.

2. From the mountains, to the prairies,

To the oceans white with foam.

God bless America, My home, sweet home.

BONNEVILLE HONOR PATCH - Fourth Grade

I. Memorize the following quotes and briefly explain what you think the author meant.

The following quote by Patrick Henry:

● Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me: Give me liberty, or give me death!

The following quote by Benjamin Franklin:

● It is a great mistake to think about being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Choose TWO of the following quotes by Abraham Lincoln:

● My concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern is to be on God's side.

● The only safe and sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.

● I walk slowly but I never walk backward.

II. Recite or sing the words to the first and fourth verses of America the Beautiful.

1. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

America! America! God shed his grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

4. Oh, beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears!

America! America! God shed his grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

BONNEVILLE HONOR PATCH - Fifth Grade

I. Memorize the following quotes and briefly explain what you think the author meant.

Choose ONE of the following quotes by Abraham Lincoln:

● Without Divine assistance I cannot succeed. And with it, I cannot fail.

● Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The following quote by Thomas Jefferson from the Declaration of Independence:

● We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

II. Recite the Preamble to the Constitution:

We the people of the United States, in order to

● form a more perfect Union,

● establish justice,

● insure domestic tranquility,

● provide for the common defense,

● promote the general welfare

● and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish

this constitution for the United States of America.

III. Sing or recite the words to the first and fourth verses of the song America:

1. My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride,

From every mountainside let freedom ring.

4. Our fathers' God, to thee, author of liberty,

To thee we sing.

Long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light.

Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King.

IV. Know these rules on how to display the flag:

● When grouped, it is in the center or front of other flags.

● When carried with one other flag, it is on the right.

● When hung vertically on a wall, the stars are on the left.

● On a stage, it is placed on the speaker's right side (the left side to the audience).

● Never use a flag as bunting for decoration.

● Handle the flag with reverence. It represents our great country.

BONNEVILLE HONOR PATCH - Sixth Grade

I. Memorize the following quotes and briefly explain what you think the author meant.

Choose ONE of the following quotes by Benjamin Franklin or Robert Kennedy:

● I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? (Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention)

● Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws - but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted - when we tolerate what we know to be wrong- when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened - when we fail to speak up and speak out - we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice. (Robert Kennedy)

Choose ONE of the following quotes by Thomas Jefferson:

● Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today . . . Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

● God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are a gift of God?

II. Write a 75-100 word essay with the title:

What Can I Do To Keep America Great?

III. Know these rules on how to display the flag:

● When grouped, it is in the center or front of other flags.

● When carried with one other flag, it is on the right.

● When hung vertically on a wall, the stars are on the left.

● On a stage, it is placed on the speaker's right side (the left side to the audience).

● Never use a flag as bunting for decoration.

● Handle the flag with reverence. It represents our great country.

IV. Sing or recite the words to the first and fourth verses of The Star Spangled Banner:

1. Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.