Veteran’s Day

On Veteran’s day, November 11, 2015, there will be several opportunities at New Canaan High School for the school community to celebrate, remember and honor the service of Veterans. On Wednesday morning, there will be a special whole-school broadcast produced by the TV Broadcasting program that incorporates footage from several interviews with local Veterans that have been conducted at the High School over the past two years. Throughout the day students will view and discuss larger segments of those interviews in their history classes.  Also, the United States History classes, AP United States History classes and American Studies classes have invited Veterans to talk to and be interviewed by students in close connection with curricular units investigating particular conflicts ranging from World War II to the War on Terror. Several classes will use the interviews as a launch pad for individual student research investigations. Additionally, as post-production is completed on interviews, they are being submitted to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and will become part of the New Canaan High School Library’s collection. Copies will also circulate throughout the Social Studies Department for classroom use where there are many important ties to the history curriculum. Recording of this year’s interviews will also be added to our Veterans history collection with the help of the TV Broadcasting program.

New Canaan High School Athletics will be fundraising at the Friday, November 13th football game vs Ludlowe to help offset the cost of placing wreaths at the gravestones of New Canaan Civil War and World War I Veterans. More than 1,000 wreaths were laid at the graves of Veterans buried at Lakeview Cemetery last year.