The National History Day Project

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The National History Day Project
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What is the National History Day Project?
It is a primarily at home project where you will
be researching a topic in history based on a
theme and then present your research in a
historical paper, exhibit, documentary (movie),
web site or performance.
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National History Day ThemeLeadership and
Legacy in History
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Leadership- and Legacy

• Leadership a person who guides or directs a
  group

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Leadership- and Legacy

• Legacy anything handed down from the
  past. Anything left for future
  generations.
• What was his legacy?

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Abraham Lincoln

• Kept the country together during a time of
  rebellion.
• Successfully led Congress to pass the 13th
  Amendment, essentially making slavery illegal.
• Is considered Americas best President.

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Leadership- and Legacy

• Legacy anything handed down from the
  past. Anything left for future
  generations.
• What was his legacy?

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Mahatma Gandhi

• He led campaign to free India from British
  control.
• Successfully overthrew the British controlled
  Indian government through non-violent acts rather
  than rebellion and war.

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Leadership- and Legacy

• Legacy anything handed down from the
  past. Anything left for future
  generations.
• What was his legacy?

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Leadership- and Legacy

• Led a campaign to end legal segregation
  (Apartheid) in South Africa.
• Helped to overthrow the government of South
  Africa and created a democracy.
• Became the first democratically elected President
  of South Africa

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Leadership- and Legacy

• Legacy anything handed down from the
  past. Anything left for future
  generations.
• What was his legacy?

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Leadership- and Legacy

• Became the Chancellor and then dictator of
  Germany.
• Passed various laws discriminating against Jew
  and other minority groups.
• Systematically killed millions of Jews,
  Catholics, Homosexuals, and the mentally and
  physically handicapped.

Ones leadership can leave a positive or negative
impact on history
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Think-Ink-Pair-Share

• Take a few minutes to come up with five examples
  of leadership that has left a meaningful legacy.
• Next share your work with your partner. Listen to
  each others ideas (What is similar and what is
  different?).
• Using what the both of you discussed, write a
  list of the three examples that had the most
  meaningful legacy and be able to explain why you
  chose those as the three best.

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Leadership and Legacy in History

• Your project must contain both elements of the
  theme.
• The leadership does not have to leave a positive
  legacy in history.
• This project is not meant to be a biography, the
  most important part of the project is to focus on
  the legacy.
• The project does not have to be about one leader,
  you can choose to complete your project on
  various leaders who left the same legacy.

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Queen Elizabeth I
The legacy left behind by the leader of a country.
Queen Elizabeth I is widely considered Englands
greatest monarch. You could discuss how her
leadership impacted England.
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NAACP
The legacy left behind by a group.
The National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People led the fight for civil rights and
is a major reason the Civil Rights Act of 1964
was passed.
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Steve Jobs
The legacy left behind by the leader of a company.
Steve Jobs founded a company that changed the way
Americans compute, listen to music, communicate
with each other and on and on.
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John Locke
The legacy left behind by a philosopher.
John Locke was a thinker who pioneered such ideas
as Natural Law, freedom of religion and freedom
of thought.
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How do I choose a topic?

• http//nhd.org/