Purpose
of Club: To promote interest
in history and to encourage young people to be civic minded.
Dues: $2
- This makes you a History Club member, but you must
be active to go on any trips.
Activities: Our
activities are varied depending on the interests of the club members.
Members can choose
to participate in all activities or just a few. Active members will
take a trip during April or May during which
they can celebrate their year-long commitment to the history club, and
during which they can learn even more
about history.
Requirements:
To go on the
history club trip, students must have paid their $2 and have
done one
of the following:
- Attend the
reenactment of the Battle of Cabin Creek, take pictures (at least 1
picture must show you there), and
- discuss the
reenactment with the history club. Date: Early Fall.
- Participate in mock
trial competitions. This is something new that VHS will be doing this
year. This may be done
- in conjunction with
the new Sociology-criminology class. There is a workshop day in
November that Mrs.Culp
- plans to attend to
learn more about this. Date: Late Fall and then
throughout the rest of the school year.
- Participate in the
District History Day Competition. Mrs. Culp has the details and will
help her American History
- classes with this
project in class. Date: Work on projects needs to be
done in Jan/Feb/March. District
- competition
is March 30.
- Participate in the
Oklahoma Heritage Week Competition. This requires you to write an essay
or create a poster
- about the selected
topic. Date: October.
- Participate in the
JFK Profiles in Courage. You can win up to $6,500. You can submit your
essay online.
Date: January 1st.
- Participate in the
Idea of America Essay Contest (Juniors). Write 1500 words about a
selected topic and you
- can win up to $5,000
and a trip to Washington DC. Date: April.
- Participate in at
least one fund raising activity that History Club decides to do. We
could sell something, work
- concession stand,
etc. Dates will vary.
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