Volume 1, Issue 1 - Teach American History
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Teach American History
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Teach American History
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Page 10<br />
State of <strong>History</strong> Day (cont.)<br />
positive move that has developed in the past year is the multiple number of teachers involved in NHD within a<br />
single school. The record reveals the sad fate of NHD in many schools when a teacher retires or moves away. If<br />
a single teacher was solely responsible for NHD in the school, then there’s no one to pick up the mantle of NHD<br />
in that particular school. The presence of a second, and in some cases even a third, teacher in a school ensures<br />
that NHD continues to live and thrive in the absence of a single teacher.<br />
2008-2009 has already been a banner year for East Tennessee students. The competition is the strongest in the<br />
course of the contests’ eight years with the medals becoming more evenly distributed among schools and across<br />
the region’s counties. A record number of East Tennessee student winners at Tennessee <strong>History</strong> Day (75% of<br />
1st place awards) is a promising omen for this year’s national contest. In the past 2 years, the national contest<br />
has begun to hear from East Tennessee’s students—here’s to East Tennessee students making themselves heard,<br />
and loudly at that, in 2009!<br />
I declare, without any reservations, that the state of National <strong>History</strong> Day in East Tennessee is stronger than<br />
ever!<br />
Gary Cagle portrays Harry T. Burn,<br />
whose 1920 tie-breaking vote made<br />
TN the 36th state to ratify the 19th<br />
Amendment. Cagle, Whitney and Gary<br />
Boggus, Teliah Turpin, and Jaleesa<br />
Shirk, placed 2nd at Knoxville and<br />
Nashville for their Sr. Performance.<br />
—Courtesy Dan MacDonald<br />
IMPORTANT DATES!<br />
East Tennessee <strong>History</strong> Day Dispatch<br />
• Thursday, September 24, 2009—NHD<br />
<strong>Teach</strong>er Workshop “Taking it to the Next<br />
Level”<br />
• Friday, January 1, 2010—Online<br />
Registration opens for East Tennessee<br />
<strong>History</strong> Day<br />
• Friday, February 12, 2010—Online<br />
Registration closes<br />
• Friday, February 12, 2010—All NHD<br />
Student Papers & Websites projects due in<br />
East Tennessee Historical Society’s office<br />
(no late projects accepted for judging)<br />
• Monday, March 1, 2010—9th Annual East<br />
Tennessee <strong>History</strong> Day
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