Newsletters (NWSISD) NWSISD newsletter - June 2014 | Page 2

NWS History Day State History Day 2014 Student’s Explore Finishers Junior Individual Exhibit “Rights and Responsibilities” Honorable Mention - Salk MS “The Magna Carta” ! Maxwell Brown Senior Individual Exhibit 4th Place-Fridley High School "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine" ! Sumaya Alfath Junior Individual Performance Honorable Mention Salk MS “Nelson Mandela and the South African Apartheid” ! Rachel Jide Junior Group Performance Honorable Mention - Salk MS “China's One Child Policy” ! Lyndsey Geist, Katie Thorpe 1st Place - Salk Middle School “Canoes and Controversy: Paddling Through the Environmental Movement in Minnesota” Sarah Merkling, Jenna Olawsky, More than seventy-five Northwest Suburban students from Brooklyn Center Junior High, Fridley Middle and High Schools, North View Junior High, Rockford Middle School and Salk Middle School competed in the National History Day Regional Competitions this spring. Students competed against other schools in their regions for a chance to move on to the State competition event at the University of Minnesota. Finalists at the State level will compete at the National History Day Contest at University of Maryland, College Park, June 15-19, 2014. ! This year’s History Day theme, “Rights and Responsibilities,” gave students an opportunity to explore the correlation between rights and responsibilities and how they relate within their chosen topic. Students needed to understand the historical significance of their topic and answer questions about time, place, and context while understanding the impact and significance. ! ! Elizabeth Rumreich Junior Group Documentary Honorable Mention - Salk MS “Emmeline Pankhurst: Women's Suffrage in Great Britain” ! Madison Odegaard, Jade Fredin 3rd Place -Salk Middle School “The Factory Act of 1833” ! Shelby Swenson, Alicia Westover Senior Paper Honorable Mention-North View Junior High IB World School “Alexander Berkman: Promoting Anarchy and Fighting for the Rights of Workers” Alex Marihart ! Senior Group Web Site Honorable Mention-Fridley HS “Tinker v. Des Moines” (http:// 60177469.nhd.weebly.com) Bryan Bennek, Luke Coelho ! Topics included Life of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Battle of Yorktown, How Women Changed During WWII, 19th Amendment, Women’s Rights in the Military, The Mississippi Flood of 1927, Title IX, Nelson Mandela, Refugee of the Vietnam War, The BiAfron War and The Exxon Valdeez. Many students had personal connections to their topics of research as well. Andrew Osagiede’s (pictured on page 1) is a student at Brooklyn Park Junior High and his exhibit was The BiAfron War. He is from Nigeria; where the BiAfron War took place. Grace Clark, pictured right and a student at Rockford Middle School, exhibited a display board about Women’s Rights in the Military. Her grandmother served in the military and Grace was able to have personal information from her grandmother to include with her exhibit!