National History Day Project

1. National History Day Project January 27th – March 11th

2. What is National History Day? • Nationwide Competition • Annual Theme…topics must address the theme • Integrates cross curricular subjects • Provides a different lens for students to research and present historical information

3. This year’s Theme:Rights and Responsibilities Rights and Responsibilities: • What is happening in your topic where people are fighting for a new freedom? • Could be societal, cultural, economic, political, etc. • Topic should address BOTH rights and responsibilities

4. How does this tie into the curriculum? • Common Core State Standards • R.I.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. • R.I.6.2 Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. • R.I.6.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text. • R.I.6.8 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. • R.I.6.9 Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another.

5. How does this tie into the curriculum? • Reader’s Workshop Initiative/Lucy Calkins Units of Study • Unit 4: Critical Nonfiction Research: Developing Analytical Lenses For Informational Reading • All CCSS embedded within Unit of Study • Reader’s Workshop Structure of Instruction will be upheld • Mini-lesson • Independent Reading Time • Share Mini Lessons Within the Unit: • As we read Nonfiction, we read for BIG ideas rather than random bits of information • As we read several texts about the same topic we begin to develop our own thinking…as we do this work, we need to be careful to mark OUR ideas apart from those of authors’. • Readers of Nonfiction need to organize and reorganize our notes thinking as ideas supported by evidence from more than one source. • Readers of Nonfiction need to be aware of and use precise academic vocabulary as we become more and more of an expert on a topic.

6. What does this mean for our RR students? • ALL students will create a History Research Project as a cumulative activity to Unit 4 in Reading • Requirements for RR Project: • Individual Project • Research (gathering of resources) and creation of project will need to happen at home or at another time outside of Reader’s Workshop • Resource Expectations: • 2 books you can touch (Nonfiction) • 1 online encyclopedia • 1 website • NHD or to “Exceed Expectations”, also need 1 primary resource

7. What does this mean for our RR students? • February 20th: students decide & tell teacher whether or not they would like to enter their project into the regional competition • Additional requirements for NHD competition: • Process Paper • Annotated Bibliography IF students decide to pursue this route, we will assist them in these pieces as well!

8. Project Options • Exhibit • Website • Documentary

9. Exhibits An exhibit visually represents you research and should look like a downsized version of an exhibit you may see in a museum. You may use a wide range of visual materials such as text, timelines, maps, graphs, charts, photographs, paintings or artifacts. Additionally, you may display primary sources like quotations, letters, newspaper articles, etc. Requirements: • Display can be 40 inches wide, 30 inches deep and 6 feet high • 500 word limit of you own words • May have media devices (tape recorders, projectors, computers) with a 3 minute limit and viewer must be able to control this. • Exhibit must stand on its own.

11. Website A website is a computer-based display that includes both textual and non-textual content. This option is best for non-textual materials such as media, photos, documents, timelines, illustrations, newspaper articles, etc. Requirements: • No more than 100MB of file space • No more than 1200 visible, student-composed words • You will need access to a computer with internet connection at home • You will need to use the NHD web site editor to build and submit your page • http://44897478.nhd.weebly.com/index.html

12. Documentary A documentary should reflect your ability to use audiovisual equipment to communicate your topic’s significance, much as professional documentarians do. The documentary category will help you develop skills in using photographs, film, video, audiotapes, computers, and graphic presentations. Your presentation. To produce a documentary you must have access to equipment and be able to operate it. Requirements: • May not exceed 10 minutes • Only entrants and the subjects of their interviews may appear on camera • Must be an original production • Credit for all sources must be given at the conclusion of the documentary (this is included in the 10 min) • Must be “self-run”, no live narration or commentary, be able to hit “play” and walk away!

14. Where to find information Email teachers anytime with questions: • Peter.Michaud@nbexcellence.org • Abigail.Lucke@nbexcellence.org • Jacqueline.David@nbexcellence.org • Chris.Kreiter@nbexcellence.org • Mary.McAlpin@nbexcellence.org • Kristina.Post@nbexcellence.org • Nick.Pratt@nbexcellence.org • Linda.Maas@nbexcellence.org • Denise.Bord@nbexcellence.org • To find out more information about National History Day and specific rules for each project in the completion: http://www.nhd.org/images/uploads/2010rulebook.pdf www.nhd.org

15. How can I help as a parent? • Help find appropriate resources • Correct reading level • Tied to topic • Discuss with student progress of project/understandings of topic • Visit public library • Do NOT do the project for them • Check in on deadlines (post on fridge, check in weekly) discuss timeline sheet www.wisconsinhistory.org/teacher/historyday/parents.asp

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