The Constitution comes alive at LPMS

Liberty Park Middle School celebrated Constitution Day in September with many events throughout campus.

Lily of the Cahaba Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) sponsored many of the activities that were held.

Ethan Vice, field representative for Rep. Spencer Bachus, spoke to the sixth grade students about the Constitution and the history of Washington, D.C.

Daniel Tackett, teen director of the Library in the Forest, and Jean Deal, librarian at LPMS, dressed in colonial attire and represented James Madison, father of the Constitution, and his wife Dolly.

All students were given pocket Constitutions compliments of the DAR. A special display in the library held an American flag that had flown over an army base in Afghanistan.

Art students designed their own representations of the American flag and students announced facts about the Constitution every day over the school broadcast.

Also, as a part of this special day, students in Kirk Spence’s seventh grade social studies classes role-played the Constitutional Convention and debated whether or not a more diverse group of individuals would have changed some of the topics and how the Constitution would have read. Some discussion topics included: Would slavery have been abolished? Would women have the right to vote? Would there have been a Civil War? At the end, students compared and contrasted the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution.