Handout F: Sample Website/Award Press Releases

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Local Students Honor Community Leader for Women’s Votes Centennial

For immediate release

Students in [teacher’s name] History Class at [school name] in [city, state], are preparing to honor a local community leader who they say is a model of civic virtue for all Americans. They are giving this award in special commemoration of the anniversary of women’s gaining the right to vote in the U.S. in 1920.

[Honoree] will receive this award as a model citizen, and specifically for his/her work in the area of [information here]. The ceremony will take place at [location] on [day and time] and the public is invited for refreshments afterwards.

The students have also launched a website, [URL], in order to help Americans today understand the perseverance and many accomplishments of leaders in the American women’s suffrage movement.

For more information contact [name, info].

Almost Half Americans Don’t Vote? One High School Class Wants to Change That For immediate release

Students in [teacher’s name] History Class at [school name] in [city, state], are preparing to honor a local community leader who they say is a model of civic virtue for all Americans, and an example of all American’s duty of civic engagement.

[Honoree] will receive this award as a model of civic virtue, and specifically for his/ her work in the area of [information here]. The ceremony will take place at [location] on [day and time] and the public is invited for refreshments afterwards.

After learning about the struggles of women in the U.S. to gain the vote, these students were dismayed to learn that, according to… [insert reference], almost half the eligible voting population does not exercise this hard-fought right. That is one reason the class is giving this award on the anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment’s passage in 1920.

The students have also launched a website, [URL], in order to help Americans today understand the perseverance and many accomplishments of leaders in the American women’s suffrage movement.

For more information contact [name, info]