Five Students Receive DAR Essay Honors
Five Lower School Owls received honors for their submissions to Daughters of the American Revolution essay contests.
Mrs. Maria Burke, representative of the DAR Watauga Chapter, came to campus to make the presentation.
The seventh and eighth grade theme challenged Owls to imagine they traveled back in time to meet one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for lunch. Each writer chose a signer then wrote about their actions and how their service contributed to the country becoming independent.
Ben Williams won first place among seventh graders in the Chickasaw District in Tennessee. He wrote about Thomas Jefferson and how the legacy of the Founding Fathers “Is not just an old paper; it is the happy lives of the people that live in America.” James Sherrod placed second in the seventh-grade competition.
Alex Russell won first place in the eighth-grade essay writing contest in the Watauga Chapter. He also wrote about how Thomas Jefferson created the national identity for the United States of America. Rishabh Bag and James Lovell were also finalists for an award.
The contests, which included 20,000 entrants nationwide and 104 locally, were judged on historical accuracy, adherence to the subject, organization of the material, originality, interest, spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
See their photos HERE.
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The seventh and eighth grade theme challenged Owls to imagine they traveled back in time to meet one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for lunch. Each writer chose a signer then wrote about their actions and how their service contributed to the country becoming independent.
Ben Williams won first place among seventh graders in the Chickasaw District in Tennessee. He wrote about Thomas Jefferson and how the legacy of the Founding Fathers “Is not just an old paper; it is the happy lives of the people that live in America.” James Sherrod placed second in the seventh-grade competition.
Alex Russell won first place in the eighth-grade essay writing contest in the Watauga Chapter. He also wrote about how Thomas Jefferson created the national identity for the United States of America. Rishabh Bag and James Lovell were also finalists for an award.
The contests, which included 20,000 entrants nationwide and 104 locally, were judged on historical accuracy, adherence to the subject, organization of the material, originality, interest, spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
See their photos HERE.
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