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2、niorSenior YearYear 1.1. HighHigh SchoolSchool RedRed CrossCross ClubsClubsAre you a high school student interested in helping others and making your community a better place to live? Start or join an American Red Cross club at your school. Red Cross clubs are a team effort, where Red Cross units an
3、d youth work together to make their communities and the world a better place and where young people develop leadership skills. A Red Cross club is sponsored by a mentor, usually a teacher from your school or a leader in your community. If you do not have a club in your area, you may want to approach
4、 someone you think is the right person for the task and see if he or she will help you get started. The different types of clubs that you could from are listed below. School Clubs Red Cross school clubs are school-based service group that help the Red Cross fulfill its humanitarian(人道主义者) mission. W
5、orking closely with the local Red Cross unit, club members participate in Red Cross service projects that impact their community and the world. Student members will discover many new opportunities for self-development and be encouraged to choose activities that will most effectively fulfill the comm
6、unitys greatest needs. Red Cross Service/ Project Clubs A service or project club operates within another club and uses a title other than “Red Cross Club”. Members complete service project for the Red Cross and for other service organizations. Clubs Not Affiliated with Schools Many Red Cross clubs
7、are sponsored by local Red Cross chapters. Like school clubs, members of these clubs develop leadership skills and participate in Red Cross service projects that impact their community and the world.2.2. SecondarySecondary SchoolsSchools inin EnglandEngland andand WalesWalesIn the UK, there is a sli
8、ghtly different education system in Northern Ireland and Scotland, but the majorities of people live in England and Wales and have the system described below. State secondary schools are of two types: comprehensive schools and grammar schools. A town which has a “comprehensive” system has children f
9、rom 11-16/18 going to the local school regardless of their academic ability. A town or rural area which still has the old “grammar” system has an exam at 11 (the 11-plus) to select the children with the highest academic ability to go to grammar schools. Those who dont go to grammar school go to seco
10、ndary schools (which are still usually called comprehensive, even if the top 5-10% of children dont go there.) Some grammar schools are still single-sex schools. Children have to go to school until they are 16 by law. At 16 they take their General Certificate of Secondary Education exams (GCSEs) in
11、about 6-10 subjects. If they pass, they can stay on at school and do “A”-level exams (Advanced levels) when they are 18. This is for people who want to go to University or some other kind of tertiary education. These two years are known as the Sixth Form (6 one, and 6 two) and the students are calle
12、d “sixth- formers”. Typically students take three related subjects (eg. Physics/Chemistry/Biology or English/French/German). They have classes in these subjects, but also free study time when they are expected to do research and reading in the library and study rooms. They are treated more like univ
13、ersity students than school students. They often have their own common room, with relaxed seating, music and coffee, tea and snacks facilities, and in many schools they either dont have to wear school uniform, or they wear a more informal version of it. Sixth-formers are also involved in the running
14、 of the school, with the Head Boy/ Girl and prefects, who manage some of the out-of- class events, such as societies, weekends away, dances and dinners. The sixth formers are also likely to make up the majority of players in the schools main sports teams for rugby, football, tennis, and hockey and s
15、o on. In the May/ June of their final year they take the exams in their three subjects, and, depending on their results, they go on to tertiary institutions. There is, however, no “prom (正式舞会)” at the end of the last year in school as in the USA.3.3. DrumDrum MajorettesMajorettesFor centuries, one o
16、f the most impressive parts of any military group has been the band, controlled by the Drum Major. He was always dressed in a splendid uniform and stood out at the front of the band as they marched, giving instructions by how he held his large mace (权杖,) or “baton(指挥棒)”, and sometimes doing spectacular (壮观的) throw-and-catch movements whilst marching. In America in the late 19th century, this kind of perf
