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History Fair 2012!

Seventh grade students will be participating in the 2nd Annual Lakeview History Fair. What is History Fair? Students identify an event (this years theme is Turning Points) in Illinois or Chicago history to do research on. From there, students create a question to drive their research, collect information, and explore. When students believe they have formed an opinion or found an answer, they construct a display, write a paper, produce a documentary, or perform an original work show what they have learned. Before we go any further, it is highly recommended that students have: Interest! Students must OWN their topic. With the amount of time well be working on this, I cant suggest this enough. Select the topic yourself, love it, and own your work youre going to be doing a lot of work with it the next 10 weeks! A Public Library Card! Students will need to research online though databases, visit their library, and potentially use neighboring libraries to compile sufficient research. Google will not be enough. Time! The two big times where work is intense will be early October (with research requiring a trip to a library; the best projects usually take students to a second location such as the Field Museum, the Chicago History Museum, etc) and late November (when students finish building their displays.

History Fair is first and foremost a school project. This project culminates in the construction of a display to represent student research and findings. This History Fair will take place from 5:00-7:00pm on Thursday, December 6th 120 student projects on display in the New Gym! Nearly all work done towards its completion will be done in class. This is the core of our work in class the next few 4-5 weeks, and all facets of this project research, analysis, synthesis, and writing will be taught, explained and guided in class. Here is a general outline of details, deadlines, and what parents and students can expect.

September: 24 History Fair Kickoff! 25 In Class Workday 26 In Class Workday 27 In Class Workday 28 Project Selection Due

October: 1 2 3 In Class Workday 10 In Class Workday 4 In Class Workday 11 In Class Workday 5 Minimum 5 Note Sheets Due 12 Minimum 10 Note Sheets & Working Thesis Due 19 Annotated Bibliography Due 26 Outline/Rough Draft of Display Due

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18 In Class Workday 25 In Class Workday

29 November:

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1 5 6 7 In Class Workday 14 21 28 In Class Workday 8 In Class Workday 15 22 29 In Class Workday

12 19 In Class Workday 26 In Class Workday

13 20 In Class Workday 27 In Class Workday

2 In Class Workday 9 Summary Statement Due 16 In Class Workday 23 30 Project Due Date

Once this in-class project is complete, students will receive their graded project the following week so that they may make changes and improvements as necessary for the History Fair.

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