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Categories. Contest Categories Your student may enter one of nine categories: • paper (individual only) • individual exhibit • group exhibit • individual performance • group performance • individual documentary • group documentary • individual web site • group web site

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  1. Categories Contest Categories Your student may enter one of nine categories: • paper (individual only) • individual exhibit • group exhibit • individual performance • group performance • individual documentary • group documentary • individual web site • group web site Each category in each division is judged separately. Groups may include 2 to 5 students. Group participants do not have to be in the same grade to compete together, but they must be in the same division. • NOTE: Choose a category in which you can make the best use of your own special abilities, talents, and interests.

  2. Rules • You are responsible for the research, design, and creation of your entry. You may receive help and advice from teachers and parents on the mechanical aspects of creating your entry. • 1. You may have help typing your paper and other written materials. • 2. You may seek guidance from your teachers as you research and analyze your material, but your conclusions must be your own. • 3. You may have photographs and slides commercially developed. • 4. You may have reasonable help cutting out your exhibit backboard or performance props (e.g., a parent uses a cutting tool to cut the board that you designed).

  3. Written Materials Rule 12: Written Material • Your entry must include the following written material in the order presented below: • 1. a title page as described in Rule 13; • 2. a process paper as described in Rule 14 (process papers are not part of historical paper entries); and • 3. an annotated bibliography as described in Rule 15. These materials must be typed or neatly printed on plain white paper, and stapled together in the top left corner.

  4. How is this graded? • Cover Sheet 5 pts. • Process Paper 15 pts. • Bibliography 25 pts. • Topic Relates to Theme 30 pts. • Presentation25 pts.

  5. Sample Topics Some Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events: • Reign of Terror: Radicalization of the French Revolution • The Treaty of Versailles in 1918 and its Consequences • Valley Forge and the Development of the Continental Army • The Continental Association and the Coming of the American Revolution • John Maynard Keynes and the influence of Keynesian Economics • Brown v. Board of Education and the integration of American Schools • Federal Power and the Case of McCulloch v. Maryland • Plessy v. Ferguson and the Growth of Jim Crow • Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Pivotal Role in the High Middle Ages • Ronald Reagan and the Resurgence of Conservatism in America

  6. • The Effects of the Fall of Constantinople • William the Conqueror and the Course of English History • The Interstate Highway Act of 1956 and the Growth of Suburban America • Martin Luther’s 95 Theses and the Coming of the Protestant Reformation • Turning Points of the Korean War: China’s Entry • The International Women’s Day Strike in Petrograd: Spark of the Russian Revolution • The Impact of Buddha’s Teaching on India • Ptolemy’s Conquest of Egypt and the Growth of Kushite Civilization • Consequences of the Recapture of Jerusalem by Salah ah Din • Television in the 1950s and the Transformation of American Entertainment • Genghis Khan and the Pax Mongolia • Battle of Sekigahara and the Rise of Tokugawas • Invention of the Spinning Jenny and the Rise of the Textile Industry • The Great Migration of African Americans to the North and its Consequences • The Russo-Japanese War: Introduction of Japan as a World Power • First Victory of the Women’s Suffrage Movement: Norwegian Women Gain the Right to Vote

  7. • The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Decline of the Soviet Empire • The Transformative Impact of the Printing Press • Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Virginia • Effects of the Crusades on Medieval Europe • King Phillip’s War and its Impact • Ms. Magazine and the growth of the Feminist Movement • 1492: A New World for America and Europe • The Third Punic War and the End of Carthage • Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the Huguenot Migration • Publication of the Koran and the Expansion of Islam • Mary Wollstonecraft and the Early Women’s Rights Movement • Prince Henry the Navigator and Portugal’s Exploration of Africa • Irish Potato Famine and the Irish Diaspora • Clovis and the Unification of France • Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific War • Walter Reed and the Conquest of Yellow Fever • The Civilian Conservation Corps: Savior of Young Men • The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Coming of the Civil War

  8. Project due: • December 10th/11th • School History Fair • →Late January—Here at BMSS • Regional History Fair • → Late February—Brackenridge High School, SAISD • State • →Early May--Austin • Nationals • →June—University of Maryland

  9. Examples! Check out nhd.org

  10. Questions?

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