Students to celebrate Constitution
Representatives of the Lee’s Legion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will be at the three local school campuses next week to help students celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution.
Dele-gates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia completed and signed the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, and the date is celebrated as the birthday of the U.S. government. Schools and federal agencies are required to hold educational programs about the Constitution on Constitution Day, and the DAR are joining in that effort by organizing and participating in special activities during Constitution Week.
Elementary Plays
“We will facilitate a play called Unite or Die, put on by fifth grade students,” said DAR Regent Lisa Echols. “Each of 12 student actors will play the part of one of the states that took part in the convention and four students will read narrator parts. The play will show how it took a constitution to get the states together.”
Nancy Smith Elementary students will do their play on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 2:00 p.m.
“There are 12 states in the play, not 13, because one of the original states did not take part in the Constitution Convention,” Echols added.
The third through fifth graders at Moran are preparing a short play pertaining to Constitution Week to be given next Thursday or Friday, according to MISD superintendent Danny Freeman.
Members of the Lee’s Legion Chapter of the DAR will provide word puzzle handouts to the elementary students.
High School Activities
The entire Moran student body will gather at their school’s flag pole at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 to watch the flag raised, and listen to a student read the Preamble to the Constitution.
Students at Albany JH/SH will gather at the flag pole at 8:39 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 for a program that includes raising the flag, reading the Preamble to the Constitution, and the band playing the national anthem.
Members of the DAR will hand out a bookmarker that has the Preamble to the Constitution printed on it to each of the seniors at each of the high schools, according to Echols.
