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National History Day

The 2025 theme: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN HISTORY


Each year more than half a million students participate in the National History Day Contest. Students choose a historical topic related to the annual theme and then conduct primary and secondary research, using libraries, archives, and museums, oral history interviews, and visits to historic sites. After you have analyzed and interpreted your sources, and have drawn a conclusion about the significance of your topic, you will then be able to present your work in one of five ways a paper, an exhibit, a performance, a documentary, or a website.

 

East Williston History Day Fair: Date TBD (January 2025)

 

Assignment Checklist:

  • Topic Selection & Project Type 
  • Preliminary Research
  • 1. First 5+ Sources & Research Question Due (on Noodletools)
  • 2. Project Categories/Types Confirmed 
  • First 5+ Notecards 
  • National History Day: 35+ Notecards (on Noodletools)
  • 8th Grade Research Project: 15 Notecards  (on Noodletools)
  • Thesis Statement & Outline w/ Notecards (on Noodletools)
  • Final Project

Theme Book:: Rights and Responsibilities

What is National History Day?

Theme Webinar

Essential Links

RESEARCH HELP

Grade 8 students can sign up to meet with Mr. Kyriacou during their lunch period. You can bring your lunch and eat it in the IMC classroom. YOU MUST SIGN UP IN ADVANCE. Please email Mr. Kyriacou at kyriacouj@ewsdmail.org. You must receive a confirmation email from Mr. Kyriacou before the appointment is official.

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Jonathan Kyriacou
Contact:
11 Bacon Road
Old Westbury, New York 11568
516-333-7549

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