The Statue of Liberty aka “Liberty Enlightening the World”
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List facts about the statue from the brief video:
1. What does she symbolize?_______________________________________________
2. Where is she located? __________________________________________________
3. When was she placed there?_____________________________________________
4. Where did she come from? Why?_________________________________________
5. How long did it take to create?____________________________________________
6. From what material is she made? __________________________________________
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The poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) is on the base of the statue.
Read lines 10-13 below.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door”
8. Who is the speaker in line 10? _______________________________________________________
9. Who are the “tired,” “poor,” and “homeless”? ____________________________________________
10.
What words does the poet use that suggests that the Statue of Liberty is symbol of protection
and freedom for these people?
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11. Why does she hold a torch in her raised right hand? ___________________________________
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12. What is the “golden door” she is opening for these people? _____________________________
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13. Liberty wears a diadem, a royal crown or headband. Why might it have seven points?
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14. Liberty holds a tablet in her left arm on which "July 4th 1776" is written in Roman numerals.
Why this date?____________________________________________________________________
15. At Liberty’s feet is a broken chain. What might it symbolize? Did it have any special meaning in the years
just after the American Civil War?
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