BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 20, Number 3 “The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.” Thomas Jefferson --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 2013 Cub Scout Roundtable November 2013 Core Value & Pack Meeting Ideas CITIZENSHIP / YOUR VOTE COUNTS Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, & Arrow of Light Meetings CORE VALUES TABLE OF CONTENTS Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide In many of the sections you will find subdivisions for the various topics covered in the den meetings The core value highlighted this month is: CORE VALUES...................................................................1 Citizenship: Contributing service and showing COMMISSIONER’S CORNER...........................................1 responsibility to local, state, and national communities. TABLE OF CONTENTS .....................................................1 Cub Scouts will demonstrate good citizenship as they William Lloyd Garrison .......................................................2 participate in pack flag ceremonies, show respect for THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS ........................3 people in authority, and strive to be good neighbors. TRAINING TOPICS............................................................5 Character Connections, pt 1 ................................................5 PACK ADMIN HELPS - .....................................................6 Recruiting Adults ................................................................6 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER LEADER RECOGNITION, INSTALLATION & MORE...6 Prayer ROUNDTABLES.................................................................8 Pack Participation ................................................................8 Scouter Jim, Great Salt Lake Council Roundtable Promotion Idea..................................................8 PACK MEETING SUPPLEMENTAL THEMES................8 Our Great and Gracious Father in Heaven, UPCOMING MONTHS.......................................................9 Cubcast ...............................Error! Bookmark not defined. we thank thee for this land. We thank Thee for the DEN MEETING TOPICS ..................................................10 voices of the men who have led us to battle against PACK MEETING THEMES .............................................11 evil. We thank Thee for the freedoms we enjoy to CUBMASTER'S CORNER ...............................................12 use our voices and our votes for change in this great Are You A Ziploc Pack???................................................15 nation. Let us reach down with one hand and lift up SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES............................................15 Reading and Writing Loop and Pin ...................................15 the down-trodden, as we raise our arm with Wolves Kickball Loop and Pin.......................................................16 ears and give honor to cause and country. Let our Messengers of Peace .........................................................16 ears be as those of the wolf; attuned to danger and Boys’ Life Reading Contest for 2013................................17 injustice, and be as ferocious as the bear in Knot/Award of the Month .................................................18 protecting our scared liberty. Let us teach our boys SCOUTStrong PALA Challenge.......................................18 GATHERING ACTIVITIES..............................................19 the value of one citizen’s voice and vote; and to Citizenship Ideas ...............................................................20 shoot the arrow straight toward the light. Amen OPENING CEREMONIES................................................20 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATIONS & STORIES .................21 ADVANCEMENT CEREMONIES...................................21 SONGS...............................................................................22 Citizenship Songs..............................................................22 STUNTS AND APPLAUSES............................................23 APPLAUSES & CHEERS ................................................23 RUN-ONS .........................................................................24 JOKES & RIDDLES.........................................................24 SKITS.................................................................................24 BALOO'S BUGLE - (October 2013 Ideas) Page 2 GAMES ............................................................................. 26 of the newspaper Genius of Universal Emancipation in Citizenship Games ............................................................ 26 Baltimore, Maryland. CLOSING CEREMONIES................................................ 27 One of the regular features that Garrison introduced CUBMASTER’S MINUTE .............................................. 27 during his time at the Genius was "The Black List," a column CORE VALUE RELATED STUFF .................................. 27 devoted to printing short reports of "the barbarities of Connecting CITIZENSHIP with Outdoor Activities ....... 27 slavery—kidnappings, whippings, murders." One of Character Connections Discussions .................................. 28 Garrison's "Black List" columns reported that a shipper from Citizenship Character Connection..................................... 28 his home town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, one Francis Crazy Holidays.................................................................. 34 Todd, was involved in the slave trade, and that he had recently PACK & DEN ACTIVITIES............................................. 35 had slaves shipped from Baltimore to New Orleans on his ship DEN MEETINGS .............................................................. 35 the Francis. Todd filed a suit for libel against both Garrison Neckerchief Slides ............................................................ 35 and Lundy, filing in Maryland in order to secure the favor of TIGER............................................................................... 36 pro-slavery courts. The state of Maryland also brought WOLF ............................................................................... 40 criminal charges against Garrison, quickly finding him guilty BEAR................................................................................ 43 and ordering him to pay a fine of $50 and court costs. WEBELOS DENS ............................................................. 48 (Charges against Lundy were dropped on the grounds that he Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities............................. 49 had been travelling and not in control of the newspaper when COULD YOU PASS THE U.S. NATURALIZATION TEST? the story was printed.) Garrison was unable to pay the fine and .......................................................................................... 53 was sentenced to a jail term of six months. He was released MAKE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER...................................... 56 after seven weeks when the anti-slavery philanthropist Arthur RECORD WIND SPEED .................................................. 56 Tappan donated the money for the fine, but Garrison had NEWSPAPER STUDY GAME........................................... 57 decided to leave Baltimore, and he and Lundy amicably ADDITIONAL ADVANCEMENT IDEAS ...................... 59 agreed to part ways. CUB GRUB ....................................................................... 61 In 1831, Lloyd Garrison returned to New England POW WOW EXTRAVAGANZASError! Bookmark not defined. and founded a weekly anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator. WEB SITES....................................................................... 62 In the first issue he wrote: ONE LAST THING........................................................... 63 Constitution Day (Citizenship Day).................................. 63 I am aware that many object to the severity of my OVERSIZED GAMES ...................................................... 64 language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh Find the Differences.......................................................... 64 as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe William Lloyd Garrison from the fire into which it has fallen; – but urge me not to use William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest – I will Massachusetts on December 12, 1805 to Abijah Garrison and not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single Frances Maria Lloyd.. His father was a sailing pilot and inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is master and had immigrated to the United States from New enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to Brunswick, Canada. His father left the family in 1808 when hasten the resurrection of the dead. he was only three. His mother was a tall, charming woman of strong religious character and began calling him Lloyd. She died in 1823, leaving the youthful Lloyd alone. Lloyd had work as a child selling home-made lemonade and candy and delivered fire-wood to help support the family. IN 1818 at the age of 13, Lloyd was apprenticed as a compositor for the Newburyport Herald. A compositor was a composed