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and who are professionally qualified (judge). Yet, others may go one
                                                                          March                               April
step further and say that men should only (judge) by God                           th
                                                                          March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day.      Holidays in the spring are cele-
TEXT SEVENTEEN                              AMERICAN HOLIDAYS             This holiday comes from Ire-        brations of the rebirth of life.
                                                                          land. People wear 3-leaf sham-      Passover is a Jewish holiday
                                                                          rocks because St. Patrick used      (celebrate) between March 13th
 January                              February                            them (explain) the Christian        and April 11th. Easter is a Chris-
 The first day of January is New      We celebrate Presidents’ Day on     Trinity. Many people celebrate      tian holiday that is celebrated on
 Year’s Day. This federal holi-       the 3rd Monday of February as a     this holiday by (wear) sham-        a Sunday between March 22nd
 day celebrates the beginning of      federal holiday (commemorate)       rocks or green clothing in honor    and April 25th. Christians cele-
 each New Year. People in the         the birthdays of George Washing-    of St. Patrick. Some people even    brate the resurrection of Jesus
 U.S. sometimes spend this day        ton and Abraham Lincoln. We         drink green beer!                   Christ. In the U.S., people attend
 (watch) college football games       call George Washington “the fa-                                         religious services and family
 and parades. On the third Mon-       ther of our country” because he                                         gatherings like picnics. They hide
 day in January, we celebrate         was the American general in the                                         colored eggs for children (find).
 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth-     Revolutionary War who led us to                                         Many children wake up to bas-
 day as a federal holiday. Martin     victory against England. He was                                         kets filled with candy that the
 Luther King, Jr. worked              elected (be) our first president.                                       “Easter Bunny” has left for them.
 (change) laws so that all people     Abraham Lincoln was our 16th
                                                                          May                                 June
 in the U.S. would (treat) fairly.    president. He kept our country
                                      together during the Civil War       Mother’s Day is observed in the     Flag Day on June 14th is the anni-
 He worked for change in the
                                      when the Southern states wanted     United States in honor of moth-     versary of the adoption of the
 1950s and 60s when many states
                                      (form) a separate country. Lin-     ers on the second Sunday in         American flag in 1777. It is not a
 had laws (separate) black and                                            May. Julia Ward Howe wrote a        federal holiday, although many
 white people. Martin Luther          coln freed the slaves with the
                                      Emancipation Proclamation.          Mother’s Day proclamation in        people display flags outside their
 King taught people (use) peace-
                                                                          1870. She wanted (have) an in-      homes and in their communities.
 ful demonstrations to change                                             ternational day when all mothers    The third Sunday in June is Fa-
 laws, instead of violence.
                                                                          of the world would stand up and     ther’s Day in the United States.
                                                                          speak for peace, so their sons      Father’s Day was first observed
                                                                          would not have (die) in war. In     in 1910 in Spokane, Washington.
                                                                          1907, Anna Jarvis proposed a        This is a day for people (remem-
                                                                          day (remember) all mothers.         ber) their fathers with presents
                                                                          Today, Mother’s Day is a holi-      and cards. People celebrate with
                                                                          day to remember mothers with        family gatherings, picnics and
                                                                          cards, flowers and presents.        sports activities.



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