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 The Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Mr. John Venditto has commissioned you to research the potential for a Federal Museum to be built in Oyster Bay. Your opinion counts. He wants to know whether the students of Oyster Bay think it is or it is not a good idea to build a national museum right in your own "back yard." This Federal Museum will house important information and artifacts of Theodore Roosevelt and the period of time of his life. Let us first learn about Teddy Roosevelt and why we would consider Oyster Bay as the home for the National Museum. We will participate in a Voicethread, write letters to Mr. Venditto, and work collaboratively on a media project substantiating your opinon. Let's discover together.

 ** Theodore Roosevelt (1858 -1919) **

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust, and sweat, and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while doing greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt 1910