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Leadership of Girl Scout Troops:

Intermediate Program

1943, Hard cover

In Youth Lies the Future

Deep interest in the growing up o young people is as old as history. Every tribe, community,

or nation has realized that youth was a valuable asset or its own uture. Parents, religious

leaders, and the community were all concerned—whether the youth was coming o age in

Samoa, preparing or lie in a Spartan state, or growing up in a community that is eeling its way

toward world citizenship.

Whatever methods were used to educate and develop the character o boys and girls, there

were certain common elements, such as:

• The desire to hand on to the next generation what the wise men had ound to be true.

• Skills that were necessary or survival.

• The eeling o pride in and loyalty to one’s own clan, state, or nation.

Those o us living in this twentieth century have recent evidence o how the education o young

people in one country can afect the entire world. We do not need an excursion into ancient

history to understand that what happens to youth in one nation can influence all nations; that

what happens to youth in one community can become nation-wide. Everything we plan these

days must fit into a world picture rame.

Thereore, it seems essential that each o us has a share in seeing that the boys and girls o our

community get the kind o citizenship training that will make a better world or all youth.



Series A

First Meeting

Game (about 15 minutes)

• Choose any lively game with simple rules that can be easily explained.

• Example: Relays, Dodge Ball, Going to Jerusalem.

• Reer to Girl Scout Handbook or suggestions on how to choose and teach games.

Talk About Girl Scouting (not over 10 minutes)

• Tell about some o the things Girl Scouts do, such as hiking, dramatics, crats, community

service. Explain that Girl Scouts the world over subscribe to the same code and repeat the

Girl Scout Promise and Laws.

• Make it clear that knowing these Laws and wanting to live up to the Promise is the most

important part o Girl Scouting.

Typical Scout Activities (about 30 minutes)

Choose one or more according to the time it takes.

a. Singing

Either an action or hiking song, a simple olk song or round, or a patriotic song suitable

or using with the Pledge o Allegiance to the Flag o the United States. Reer to

Girl Scout Handbook or points on how to choose and teach a song and to one o the

songbooks in the Publications Catalog.

b. Outdoor Activity

A brie treasure hunt or nature observation trail around the block or to the nearest

open space, using some o the Girl Scout trail signs. See Tenderoot requirements

in Girl Scout Handbook .

c. Simple Dramatics

Such as those suggested in Troop Dramatics badge activities numbered 1-5 in the

Girl Scout Handbook .

d. First Aid

How to use a triangular bandage and how to tie a square knot. See other suggestions

in the Girl Scout Handbook .e. Crats

Using material at hand or scraps. See section on Arts and Crats in Girl Scout Handbook .

Make something useul or the home.

Troop Government (about 20 minutes)

Explain how to join the troop and the membership requirements. Give out the parent consent

orms that are obtained ree rom the national or local headquarters. Ask girls to bring to the

next meeting the orms filled out and signed, together with the national membership dues

o one dollar. Explain that a girl may get her Handbook immediately, but that she cannot be

invested as a Girl Scout or purchase her uniorm and insignia until—(a) she has completed the

membership requirements, and (b) the troop is o cially registered.

Ask the girls i they have any suggestions or the next meeting or any questions. Discuss any

preliminary steps in troop organization that might be taken next week, such as troop dues or

election or appointment o temporary troop o cers.

Closing (5-10 minutes)

• Girls standing in circle ormation so that all may see, hear, and take part.

• Reminder o what they are to bring next week.

• Repeat the Girl Scout Promise slowly (girls do not o cially take the Promise until they

are invested). Suggest that girls learn Promise and Laws by next week and be ready

to give examples rom their own everyday living o at least one Law.

• Sing a patriotic song. I there is a Flag o the United States available, give the Pledge

o Allegiance.



Second Meeting

Game (about 15 minutes)

Same type o game as or first meeting or one suggested by the girls. A dramatic or singing

game is also good or letting of steam.

Troop Government (about 25 minuets)

• Collect parent consent orms and membership dues. Discuss weekly troop dues.

Appoint or elect temporary treasurer.

• Discuss regular and prompt attendance at meeting. Decide at what hour meeting

shall o cially begin and end.

• Appoint or elect a temporary troop secretary or scribe.

• Encourage questions and ideas.

Scout Activities (about 35 minutes)

Choose one rom the list given in First Meeting or one o the Tenderoot homemaking

requirements.

Closing (about 15 minutes)

Tell how Girl Scouting got started and something about Juliette Low. Explain Girl Scout Motto

and Slogan. Repeat Girl Scout Laws and ask or examples o observance.

Third Meeting

Demonstration and Practice with the Flag of the United States (about 20 minutes)

• Show girls how to act as Color guard and discuss respect due the flag.

• Practice the horseshoe ormation as ound in the Girl Scout Handbook .

Conduct the Flag Ceremony (about 10 minutes)

• Pledge o Allegiance.

• “Star-Spangled Banner.”

• Repeat Girl Scout Laws.• Let one or two girls tell about a Law well carried out, preerably by someone else.

Lively Recreation (about 15 minutes)

Games, action song, or olk dance.


• Collect any parent consent orms and membership dues that were orgotten last week.

• Have treasurer collect weekly troop dues.

• Have secretary take attendance and enter each girl’s ull name and attendance in troop

record book.

• Discuss orm o government troop will use to stat with. Possibly a direct orm, i a small

group (town meeting); i over twelve girls, a representative orm (patrol method). See

Chapter Five.

Girl Scout Quiz Game (about 20 minutes)

Divide into two teams or use the temporary patrol groups or a competitive review testing

game. The spelling bee, radio quiz, or relay race orm might be used or questions that you have

prepared in advance. Questions on respect due the Flag, the Girl Scout Laws, the history o Girl

Scouting, or those suggested by other Tenderoot requirements could be used.

Closing Song (about 5 minutes)



Fourth Meeting

Lively Game (about 15 minutes)


• Patrol meetings or general business meeting to attend to ollowing matters:

• Dues

• Attendance

• Check on Tenderoot requirements.

• Discuss time, place, and program or first hike or outdoor meeting. See Girl Scout

Handbook and section on “Begin Early in the Out-o-Doors” in this chapter.

Scout Activities (about 30 minutes)

Any o the Tenderoot or Second Class activities in the Out-o-Doors field would be appropriate

here.

Closing (about 20 minutes)

• Circle ormation.

• Discuss what it means to be a Girl Scout. Point out actual examples o how Laws

have been applied (or orgotten) in troop activities o past three weeks.

• Learn one or two songs appropriate or the hike, perhaps a marching song, and oneto sing around a campfire.

Fifth Meeting

Lively Song or Folk Dance (about 15 minutes)

Tenderfoot Activities (30 minutes)

a. Final check-up on membership requirements. You, as leader, talk to individual girls

to make sure they understand the Girl Scout Promise and Laws.

b. The rest o the group can practice games and songs that might be used on the hike,

rehearse a ceremony, or review any Girl Scout activity under the direction o yourassistant leader or troop committee member or troop o cer.


• General assembly or patrol meetings:

• Dues and attendance.

• Assignment o specific jobs and responsibilities or hike.

• Collecting ideas or the investiture ceremony.

Closing Ceremony (15 minutes)

This might be the Flag ceremony or the rehearsal o some part o the investiture.

Sixth to Eighth Meetings

These meetings should include:

1. A hike or outdoor expedition o some kind.

2. Preparation or the investiture ceremony. This investiture should be held as soon

as possible ater you have received your troop certificate and the individual

membership cards.

3. Plans or uture programs, community service, or badge activities. See chapters

on “Girls’ Interests and Needs” and “Leader-Girl Program Planning.”



Eleven Program Fields

• Agriculture

• Arts and Crats

• Community Lie

• Health and Saety

• Homemaking

• International Friendships• Literature and Dramatics

• Music and Dancing

• Nature

• Out-o-Doors

• Sports and Games

Under each o the eleven program fields there are two Second Class activities—and several

proficiency badges.

Second Class

A girl must complete one o the Second Class activities in each o the eleven fields.

First Class

A girl must complete Second Class and earn at least twelve proficiency badges, as ollows:

1. Four to six badges in one field. (This may be her major.)

2. The remainder rom any other fields.

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