Club Opportunities in the Upper School
Admissions Ambassadors
Mission: To assist the Office of Admissions with special events and to serve as hosts and hostesses for prospective students during the course of the year.
Blue Review
Mission: To produce the Charlotte Latin literary journal.
Book Club
Mission: To encourage reading for pleasure and to offer an opportunity for discussion about literature among peers.
Chess Club
Mission: To offer the opportunity to any Upper School student to learn and play chess in a supportive and respectful environment. The club will hold an annual CLS Chess Championship and maintain a fair rating system for all players while supporting good sportsmanship, winning with grace, and losing with dignity.
Club Sandwich
Mission: To provide sandwiches for the homeless. Members will bring sandwich supplies on designated days and make the sandwiches during club meetings. Service hours will be awarded.
Creative Writing Club
Mission: To provide students with creative writing workshops and opportunities for readings, competition and publication.
Discourse Club
Mission: To meet and debate vaious topics in a free-flowing and unrestricted dialogue. There are no limits or regulations on speech; the only requirement is to show up prepared.
Environmental Club
Mission: To develop an awareness of environmental issues, maintain the stream on campus through the "adopt-a stream" program, assist in the campus recycling efforts, and participate in the Sierra Student Coalition.
Forensics Club
Mission: To introduce students to interscholastic competition in debate, public speaking, and interpretation of literature. Forensics involves a significant time and financial commitment as the team travels regularly to regional and national tournaments. Meetings are held during Activity Periods, at lunch, and on weekends.
Garden Club
Mission: To create a garden at Charlotte Latin that will produce vegetables for consumption or sale while composting waste from the cafeteria and to learn about "green" lifestyle choices.
Honor Council Advisory Board
Mission: To serve as a resource group to the elected Honor Council by helping plan ceremonies and assemblies and to act as liaisons with other divisions of the School. Those aspiring to be elected to the Council in the future are strongly encouraged to be active in Advisory Board activities.
Improv Club
Mission: To provide students with an outlet for their creativity out of the confines of the classroom and/or in addition to their participation in drama department productions. Meets once a month on a Friday afternoon after school.
International Thespian Society
Mission: To honor excellence in high school theater. The Society, a part of the Educational Theatre Association, has chapters in more than 3,900 secondary schools in North America.
Mosaic
Mission: To promote diversity in and outside of our school community through the organization of events that celebrate our cultural, religious, ethnic, social and racial diversity. We strive to promote diversity in our daily lives and increase respect for all kinds of human diversity through an atmosphere of appreciation and acceptance.
Movie Club
Mission: To talk about current movies and become better critics and review writers; to discuss current issues and social themes and examine their role in movies; to educate people about classic films and references; to have fun.
National Junior Classical League
Mission: To encourage an interest in and an appreciation of the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and to impart an understanding of the debt of our own culture to that of classical antiquity.
SADD (Students Against Drinking and Driving)
Mission: To raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving.
Science Club
Mission: To foster in our students an interest in and appreciation of science, technology and engineering. Activities include projects and field trips. Students can also elect to participate in competitions such as Science Olympiad and Science Bowl.
Service Club
Mission: To serve as a forum for students and faculty to discuss issues pertaining to the volunteer work of the CLS community with the goal of fostering servant leadership and a lifelong love of community service.
Spanish Club
Mission: To provide students enrolled in Spanish levels three, four, and five the opportunity to foster an appreciation for the Spanish language and culture while exploring all that they have to offer. We plan to discuss different cultural practices from all over the world, to experience typical cuisine, and to listen to Spanish music, as well as become involved in service projects such as interacting with Lower School students in Spanish on a regular basis.
Table Francaise
Mission: To promote the French language and culture in an informal setting. All French students, past and present, are invited to participate in club meetings and activities.
Technology Club
Mission: To explore the practical and entertaining uses of technology. Members of the club will examine ethical issues related to technology and will explore how we can use it in a positive and appropriate way at Charlotte Latin. The club will also provide student feedback on a wide range of topics to the School's Technology Committee.
World Quest
Mission: To prepare students for global citizenship through an awareness and study of current affairs, geography, general historical knowledge, and people in the news. The School's team competes annually with those representing other local high schools.
SPECIAL NOTES
The Student Council is comprised of officers and representatives elected from each grade level. While this process is begun for rising grades 10-12 in the spring, freshman officers and two representatives-at-large from each grade are chosen after the school year begins in the fall. The Student Council addresses student concerns of all kinds with the faculty and administration and plans and executes various events on campus throughout the year.
In addition to the many opportunities listed above, there are numerous service-related activities organized by the CLS Service Council available to students each and every week. Students may choose to submit their service hours to the Service Coordinator. Those who accumulate more than 150 hours during their tenure in the Upper School are recognized at the end of their senior years as members of the Charlotte Latin Service Society.