{"id":9324,"date":"2020-10-12T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/citizenship-safety-programs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:29:25","slug":"citizenship-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/citizenship-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizenship Essay Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10837 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tnpta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-27-090617.png?resize=576%2C616&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tnpta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-27-090617.png?w=734&amp;ssl=1 734w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tnpta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-27-090617.png?resize=280%2C300&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tnpta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-27-090617.png?resize=600%2C643&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Citizenship Essay Program <\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h2><strong>Citizenship Essay Program: Submission Deadline is January 22, 2027<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:list -->\r\n<p>The Citizenship Essay Program provides Pre-K &#8211; 12th Grade Students an opportunity to learn more about being a citizen of the United States of America by introducing a theme (submitted by a student in Tennessee) each year that is used as the inspiration for an essay.\u00a0 There are six divisions, each with its own age group and essay length, in which entries are judged for interpretation of the theme, as follows:<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>DIVISIONS |\u00a0<\/strong><strong>GRADES |\u00a0<\/strong><strong>ESSAY LENGTH (minimum)<\/strong><br \/>Pre-Primary (Preschool &#8211; Kindergarten) 25 words<br \/>Primary (Grades 1 &#8211; 2) 50 words<br \/>Intermediate (Grades 3 &#8211; 5) 100 words<br \/>Middle School (Grades 6 &#8211; 8) 200 words<br \/>High School (Grades 9 &#8211; 12) 350 words<br \/>Special Education (all grades)\u00a050 words<\/p>\r\n<h4><strong>Citizenship Essay Program Steps &#8211; Getting Started<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>2026-2027 Theme: <b>Citizenship In Action<\/b><\/li>\r\n<li>View and publish the<a href=\"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/citizenship\/citizenship_essay_contest_rules.pdf\"><strong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"> Citizenship Essay Contest Rules <\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">to all students, parents and teachers at your school.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Unit deadline to State PTA: January 22, 2027<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>View\/Download student entry form at<a href=\"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/citizenship\/citizenshipstudententry.pdf\"><strong> https:\/\/tnpta.org\/citizenship\/citizenshipstudententry.pdf<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Questions? Need help? Please reach out to <strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:essays@tnpta.org\">essays@tnpta.org<\/a><\/strong> for additional guidance on Citizenship Essay Programs.\u00a0<\/h4>\r\n<!-- \/wp:list --><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizenship Essay Program Citizenship Essay Program: Submission Deadline is January 22, 2027 The Citizenship Essay Program provides Pre-K &#8211; 12th Grade Students an opportunity to learn more about being a citizen of the United States of America by introducing a theme (submitted by a student in Tennessee) each year that is used as the inspiration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10838,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9324\/revisions\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}