Check Yourself

Date

Assignment

Explanation

Keeping up!

October

Project assigned

NHD is a national contest in which students will research a topic based on the yearly theme the National History Day organization decides.  7^th graders concentrate on Ancient World topics and the 8^th graders can research US and post industrial revolution World History.

The final due date for the entire project is in December before students leave for Winter Break.  The school wide competition is held in January for a week when students return.

October

NHD proposal and contract (Sails or Anchors) signed by parents and turned in

Students will get a form that they will use to describe what their topic will be.  The contract is to be read and students decide with parent approval if they will do the long term project alone or in a group (no more than 2 for the research paper)

Student should be gathering information and sources to determine their topic.  Students are required to keep track of all their sources with a MLA formatted bibliography, which will also be annotated before handing in the final draft in December.

November 7

Annotated Bibliography rough draft due

See specific directions and examples on hand out.

November 20

Rough Draft of Background information and connecting to the theme due

See specific directions and examples on hand out.

November 27

Process Paper rough draft due

The process paper is a 2 page maximum, 500 word maximum description of the student’s personal experience with this NHD project.  See specific directions and examples on hand out.

December 17

 In class presentation of research project (5 minutes)

 Student or student teams will have 5 minutes to present the most important information and how their topic links to the theme.

December 17

Final draft of  Research Paper with annotated bibliography

Groups only need to turn in one process paper and annotated bibliography.  These should not have a fancy cover page (just name of project, student names, NHD , year and junior division – see example), they do need to be in a folder.

January 9

All media projects must be turned in to the teacher.

See the specific NHD requirements of the media (exhibits, CD’s for websites, power points in student files at RSJ and the script for performances.)

January 16-18

School wide presentations of the NHD projects

 Depending on how many participants will be a 1-3 day event.

March

RSJ finalists will compete at the county

NHD County wide competition at OCDE