Topic Selection
Sometimes, History Day topics can be inspired by a simple news article. In 1999, three high school students in Kansas read a newspaper clipping about a Polish woman named Irena Sendler who worked in the Warsaw Ghetto saving children. That newspaper clipping not only inspired their History Day performance, but eventually led them to sharing Irena Sendler’s relatively-unknown story with the world. NHD-MT will continue to add current news articles here that might inspire student projects.
Structuring Projects
These slides will walk you through structuring your argumenta and narrative for each of the 5 History Day project categories.
historical context
Process paper
annotated bibliography
Rubrics
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