Club Opportunities in Upper School, 2008-2009

Alumni Association 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.

Captain's Council

Mission: To bring together athletes who are leaders or aspiring leaders of teams to discuss how to inspire teammates to overcome obstacles and stay focused. Learning to manage team conflicts and encouraging responsible behavior on and off the field are also emphases.

Car Club

Mission: To discuss anything having to do with cars. Open to all students; no car or license is required. The group will explore having a car show on campus and visit a local Ferrari Club.

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.

Creative Writing Club
Mission: To provide students with creative writing workshops and opportunities for readings, competition and publication.

Diversity Club
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 to increase respect for all kinds of human diversity through an atmosphere of appreciation and acceptance.

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.

German Club

Mission: To expand our knowledge of the German culture and language. During meetings, we will do activities we don't have time for in class, such as cooking German foods, watching German movies, singing, and playing German games. All German students at Latin are encouraged to join.

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. After signing an oath of confidentiality, members also rotate as observers at Honor Council hearings. Current Honor Council members and those aspiring to be elected to the Council in the future are required to be active in Advisory Board activities.

Improv Club

Mission: To provide students with an outlet for their creativity outside of the confines of the classroom and/or in addition to their participation in drama department productions. The club meets after school on a Friday afternoon once a month.

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.

Photography Club
Mission: To provide interested students the opportunity to take pictures and improve their skills in photography. Members must own or have access to a working 35 mm film camera and/or a digital camera (preferably three megapixels and above).

SADD (Students Against Drinking and Driving)
Mission: To raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving.

Science Olympiad

Mission: To form a team, composed of groups of two or three students for events in engineering, physics, chemistry, forensics, ecology, entomology, geology, and biology, which will compete in local, regional and state competitions. Interest is the only prerequisite.

Service Council Advisory Group

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 life-long love of community service.

Spanish Club
Mission: To provide students enrolled in Spanish levels three, four, or five with 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 to 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.

Transcendental Club
Mission: To reflect on the works of Emerson and Thoreau and others in their literary tradition, to develop a greater appreciation for the natural world by going on hiking and camping trips, and to demonstrate transcendental awareness by caring for the gardens on campus.

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 year as members of the Charlotte Latin Service Society.