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2 Student Groups Win 'History Day' Contest In State, Head To Nationals
Source: The Greeneville Sun
by Bill Jones
Date: 2008-04-07
Two groups of Greene County students took first-place awards in the Tennessee History Day state competition on Saturday at the University of Memphis.
The Junior Group Performance Team from Mosheim Middle School and the Junior Group Exhibit Team from Chuckey-Doak Middle School will now advance to the 2007-08 National History Day national contest, which will be held June 15-19 at the University of Maryland.
A Mosheim Middle School team composed of eighth-grade students Brianna Morrow, Melissa Kinser and Brittany Loveall took first place in the Tennessee History Day Junior Group Performance category with their performance about the Salem Witch Trials.
A Chuckey-Doak Middle School team composed of Emily Frazier and Katie Adams also took first place in the Tennessee History Day Junior Group Exhibit category with their exhibit "Women's Suffrage: The Conflict Within."
The Chuckey-Doak Middle School team was coached and accompanied to Memphis by eighth-grade history teacher LeAnn Myers.
"They really know their topic and they're very articulate young ladies," Myers said of Emily Frazier and Katie Adams.
Myers said all Chuckey-Doak Middle School eighth-grade history students had the option this year of taking part in the National History Day competition or taking part in an in-school history competition.
She noted that Frazier and Adams became interested in the struggle to win the right to vote for women after they viewed a documentary called "Iron Jawed Angels" about the struggle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Frazier and Adams, she said, chose to focus on the conflict within the broader women's suffrage movement.
Third-Place Win
In addition, a Mosheim Middle School team of Chandler Christopher, Karina Thacker, Daniel Whitehead and Tyler Patterson took third place in the Junior Group Documentary competition at the Tennessee History Day competition.
The third-place winning documentary was entitled "Andrew Johnson: Defender of the Constitution."
"We're tickled to death," Mosheim Elementary and Middle School Principal Yhona Jones said this morning of the first- and third-place place finishes of Mosheim teams in the state competition.
Jones said she wished to thank Tusculum College for its assistance to the Mosheim students.
She noted that Marilyn duBrisk, artist in residence at Tusculum College and director of the school's Arts Outreach program, had worked with the members of the Mosheim Junior Group Performance team this year.
The National History Day effort in Greene County is coordinated by the Museums of Tusculum College and the Department of Museum Programs and Studies and is supported by the Andrew Johnson Heritage Association.
Mosheim Principal Jones also praised the work of Doug LaFollette, the eighth-grade history teacher who has for years coached the Mosheim Junior Group Performance teams.
She noted that Mosheim Junior Group Performance Teams have gone to the National History Day national contest in six of the last seven years.
Jones also said that the third-place winning Mosheim documentary team may also be invited to compete in the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland because one of the teams that finished higher in state competition may not be able to travel to the University of Maryland in June.
Normally, only the first- and second-place finishers in each state category are invited to take part in the national competition.
High School Competitor
In addition to the two middle school teams, Chuckey-Doak High School student Nadareh Naseri finished fourth in the Tennessee History Day Senior Individual Exhibit category with her exhibit: "Women Writers and Pseudonyms."
Program's Background
National History Day is a curriculum enhancement program designed to improve the way history is taught and learned in middle schools and high schools. It requires students to conduct extensive research, interpret information and draw conclusions about the meaning of the past.
For more information, visit www.nationalhistoryday.org
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