1. Dreaded Outline Web (6th)
Secondary Sources
Published books or articles by authors who were not eyewitnesses or participants in the historical event and who base their interpretation on primary sources, research, and study. These sources provide context for a historical event. After the time.
Primary Sources
Letters
Speeches
Diaries
Newspaper articles from the time
Oral history interviews
Documents
Photographs
Artifacts
Or anything else that provides first hand accounts about a person or event.
Dreaded Outline Web (6th)
Topic showed leadership and legacy
How topic showed leadership (secondary)
Topic’s legacy (secondary)
Argument Lead 1
Argument Lead 2
Argument Leg 1
Argument Leg 2
Primary Evidence
Leg 2a
Primary Evidence
Lead 1a
Primary Evidence
Lead 2a
Primary Evidence
Leg 1a
Ev 1b
Ev1c
Ev 2b
Ev 2c
Ev 1b
Ev 1c
Ev 2b
Ev 2c
Historical Context Included?
The appropriate settings in which to understand your subject’s
time period. Settings might include relevant physical, economic, intellectual, and/or
socio-cultural characteristics of the place and time.
Historical Perspective Included?
Understanding a topic’s development over time and its influence.
Impact/Change
SO WHAT?
Why is topic important?
How has topic changed history?

2. Dreaded Outline Web (7th/8th)
Secondary Sources
Published books or articles by authors who were not eyewitnesses or participants in the historical event and who base their interpretation on primary sources, research, and study. These sources provide context for a historical event. After the time.
Primary Sources
Letters
Speeches
Diaries
Newspaper articles from the time
Oral history interviews
Documents
Photographs
Artifacts
Or anything else that provides first hand accounts about a person or event.
Dreaded Outline Web (7th/8th)
Topic showed leadership and legacy
How topic showed leadership (secondary)
Topic’s legacy (secondary)
Argument Lead 1
Argument Lead 2
Argument Lead 3
Argument Leg 1
Argument Leg 2
Argument Leg 3
Primary Evidence
Leg 2a
Primary Evidence
Lead 1a
Primary Evidence
Lead 2a
Primary Evidence
Lead 3a
Primary Evidence
Leg 1a
Primary Evidence
Leg 3a
Ev 1b
Ev1c
Ev 2b
Ev 2c
Ev 3b
Ev 3c
Ev 1b
Ev 1c
Ev 2b
Ev 2c
Ev 3b
Ev 3c
Historical Context Included?
The appropriate settings in which to understand your subject’s
time period. Settings might include relevant physical, economic, intellectual, and/or
socio-cultural characteristics of the place and time.
Historical Perspective Included?
Understanding a topic’s development over time and its influence.
Impact/Change
SO WHAT?
Why is topic important?
How has topic changed history?

3. Baby Step #1
Open a word document and insert a MLA header
Save document as NHD 2015 Dreaded Outline and Thesis Last First name
Complete the following sentences.
___________ (Topic) showed leadership by _______________. ____________ (Topic’s) legacy is _________________.

4. Baby Step #2 3 ways your topic showed leadership. (Argument 1,2,3)
3 legacies of your topic (Argument 1, 2, 3)

5. Toddler Step #3 Leadership Argument #1 evidence (Primary sources)
Evidence (Primary) brief description and source
Leadership Argument #2 evidence (Primary sources)
Leadership Argument #2 evidence (Primary sources)

6. Toddler Step #3 Legacy Argument #1 evidence (Primary sources)
Evidence (Primary) brief description and source
Legacy Argument #2 evidence (Primary sources)
Legacy Argument #3 evidence (Primary sources)

7. Toddler Step # 4 So What?
Answer these questions in your own words. Be sure to use examples from your research. The impact/change my topic caused was….. My topic is important in history because…

8. Adolescent Step #5 NHD TITLES REMEMBER THE FUNCTIONS OF A TITLE
A good title does several things. It …
predicts content (subject matter.)
catches the reader's interest.
reflects the tone or slant of the piece of writing.
contains keywords that will make it easy to access by a computer search. This year words like leadership and/or legacy or words that mean the same thing.
Title writing is a process. It takes brainstorming and revising. Your title will not just appear in one magic moment. You have to work at it and get lots of peer feedback.

9. Dynamite Titles Good Examples Poor Examples
Globalization of McDonalds: American Corporations Leading the World’s Economy
The World’s First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN Declaration of Human Rights
The Bloodless Revolution of 1800: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Legacy of a Peaceful Transition of Power
Confucianism: Leading the Way to a Chinese Civil Service
Andrew Jackson: The Legacy of the People’s President
Yoga Bonita: How Brazil Led a Soccer Revolution
Poor Examples
McDonald’s Globalization
Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN
Adams and Jefferson’s Bloodless Revolution
Chinese Civil Service
Andrew Jackson’s Legacy
Brazil’s Soccer Revolution

10. Teen Step #6 Develop a Thesis Statement
NHD projects should do more than just tell a story. Every exhibit, performance, documentary, paper and web site should make a point about its topic. To do this, you must develop your own argument of the historical impact of the person, event, pattern or idea you are studying. The point you make is called a thesis statement. A thesis statement is not the same as a topic. Your thesis statement explains what you believe to be the impact and significance of your topic in history.
Title
The World’s First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN Declaration of Human Rights
Thesis Statement
Eleanor Roosevelt’s skills as an activist, reformer, organizer, and advocate for universal human rights led to the adoption of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, a model and cornerstone for human rights movements.

11. Let’s take a look at a “Don’t” and “Do” example:
Don’t: Television helped John F. Kennedy win the 1960 election.
The problem with this thesis is that it is lacking specific information and there is no concrete evidence to support the claim.
Do: Television was a new communication tool widely available during the 1960 presidential campaign. Senator John F. Kennedy’s innovative use of this mass medium, particularly in the televised presidential debates, helped secure him the presidency over Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Kennedy’s victory marked a new era of political campaigning and changed the way Americans understand and receive their political candidates.
Also make sure to work the theme words into your thesis statement, judges love that…

12. Examples of Thesis Statements
Unacceptable:
Teddy Roosevelt was a famous President.
Acceptable:
President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” resulted in conservation efforts like the National Reclamation Act of 1902 increasing large-scaled irrigation of dry farmland.
Labor unions played a major role in history.
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (the Wagner Act), nicknamed the “Labor Bill of Rights,” greatly strengthened Labor Unions in the U.S. through the establishment of the National Labor Relations Board and the guarantee of workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.

13. Teen Step #7 So how do I write my thesis paragraph?
You may want to follow this formula for writing your thesis paragraph . . .
2 sentences are your Thesis statement. Remember topic + theme + impact/change = thesis statement
4 arguments that support your thesis with evidence if needed.
1 sentence that explains your topic’s legacy (how it changed the world you live in)
1 sentence that has your conclusion—why you think your topic is important.

14. Thesis = Topic + Theme + Impact.
Your thesis does not just introduce your topic. You are creating an argument that expresses your topic’s significance and demonstrates how the theme plays a central part in your topic’s impact.
A thesis Paragraph BUILDS on
topic +
theme
impact/change =
thesis paragraph
Topic’s Leadership & Legacy
5 Ws + How
Topic definitions
In history
Historical context
Historical perspective
SO What???
How did your topic change history?
Why is it important?

15. Grown-up Step #8
PROJECT
PRODUCTION

16. Middle Age #9

19. Almost Done #10 Process Paper
A process paper is a description of no more than 500 words explaining how you conducted your research and created and developed your entry. You must conclude your description with an explanation of the relationship of your topic to the contest theme. Use a clearly readable font in size 12. Your process paper must be doubled spaced. Title Page - A title page is required as the first page of written material in every category. Your title page must include only the title of your entry, your name(s) and the contest division and category in which you are entered. Do not include your age, grade or school name. The first section should explain how you chose your topic. The second section should explain how you conducted your research. The third section should explain how you selected your presentation category and created your project. The fourth section should explain how your project relates to the NHD theme. This is your thesis paragraph.