<p>What do you do in these clubs? Also, when can get inducted into them? Is it when you're in your junior year, or is it when your in a certain level of that language (ex: Spanish III or Spanish IV)?</p>
<p>For my school, we are inducted when we are in Honors Spanish III or above with As in the class and a 3.0+ GPA. We tutor Spanish or something. It's not very active, really.</p>
<p>I was in French. We did a few community service things, and we fundraised for the annual scholarship given to a senior.</p>
<p>Like most honor societies, my French Honor Society just does the minimum required to stay in existance. We get inducted after French III, and then pretend to do community service. Basically pointless.</p>
<p>"We get inducted after French III, and then pretend to do community service. Basically pointless."
Haha yeah that's the same with Latin Honor Society. Except we don't even pretend. A typical meeting goes like this:
Adviser: So does anyone have any ideas of what we can do as a club?
Members: Nope.
Adviser: Well come back next meeting with ideas...
And then at the next meeting no one has ideas. Except our Spanish Honor Scoiety was kind of active. We did a few fundraisers and raised a few thousand dollars for some school in Mexico, and did a canned food drive that got a gazillion cans of stuff. In my school you get inducted into SHS after Spanish 3, and LHS after Latin2.</p>
<p>A student must have taken/passed/achieved mastery (not sure) the language Regents (NY state test), and maintained a 90 average throughout one's high school language career. This goes for Spanish, French, Italian, and American Sign Language. For Japanese, I believe our sensei just choose those most deserving because it's a much smaller program. We have only one Language Honor Society, but kids can be inducted more than once and receive more than one chord for each language. (I'm getting three from this HS!)</p>
<p>Our language honor societies do NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. There's a little reward banquet thing, and you graduate with a purple chord on, but the only think you have to do to be in it is to get As in language. Every semester. It's not even a real club- no president, vp, meetings, or anything.</p>
<p>Our NHS is MUCH more active and actually does things.</p>
<p>they're useless. the only good thing about them is that you get cords when u graduate</p>
<p>Ha, they are so pointless that we don't even have them.</p>
<p>We hold an international banquet once a year, show foreign movies, meet and become friends with the international school in my town, organize trips to places that have to do with languages in our school (i.e.: France/Belgium/Luxembourg, Spain/Costa Rica/etc, Italy), we tutor other students who have difficulty in languages... And that's about it.</p>
<p>To be in it, the student has to have 85+ average in language from Language I to half-way through Language IV, pass the regents exam, and submit an application with recommendations from teachers, a transcript, etc. And my school has set up a point system and you need a certain number of points in order to stay in the Honor Society.</p>
<p>My school doesn't haven't them, but it also only offers Spanish, so it wouldn't be much of a distinction. This is one of those things I learned about only after finding CC.</p>
<p>I don't remember the qualifications for our SNHS...all I remember is that it is pretty unfair because it's based on grades in the past few semesters. This meant that people in Spanish V didn't get in because they got a "B" one semester in Spanish IV (which is where Spanish gets hard at our school) and people in Spanish IV did because Spanish up until then is so easy. My friend went to Chile for a semester and is pretty near fluent now and didn't get in. Lame.</p>