Extreme Journey High School Camp How to Apply In Partnership with the UVA Summer Enrichment Program.  June 22 – July 3, 2008

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Non-Scholarship Applicants
Students who do not live in counties that border the Journey Through Hallowed Ground or who do not wish to apply for a scholarship, may visit the University of Virginia Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) website after December 1st and complete the Senior Application Form. The two week program costs $1,000.      

Scholarship Applicants
Full scholarships, a $1,000 value, will be awarded to twenty students.  Applicants must submit a creative essay and scrapbook (guidelines follow below) along with the SEP Senior Application Form by February 15, 2008.  Eligible students must reside in counties* that define the Journey Through Hallowed Ground or in designated private schools**.

* Eligible counties include Adams, Washington, Carroll, Frederick, Albemarle, Culpeper, Fauquier, Loudoun, Madison, Orange, Prince William, Rappahanock, Greene, Spotsylvania, and Jefferson.
**Eligible Private Schools include Foxcroft, The Ethel Walker School, Holton-Arms, and Miss Hall’s School

Ideal candidates enjoy reading about historical events, working with authentic research materials and using their imagination. Applicants will use all of those skills as they write a creative essay and create a five page scrapbook related to a proposed topic.      

Scholarship Applicant Checklist

1. Complete the Senior Application Form from the University of Virginia Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) website [available after December 1, 2007]
2. Write a creative essay (Guidelines below)
3. Design a scrapbook  (Guidelines below)
4. Submit the Senior Application Form, creative essay, and scrapbook to UVA SEP by February 15, 2008

Mail the Scholarship Entry Form, creative essay, and scrapbook to the following address by February 15, 2008.

   Summer Enrichment Program
   University of Virginia
   P.O. Box 400264
   405 Emmet Street South
   Charlottesville, VA  22904-4264

Guidelines for Creative Essay and Scrapbook Submission  

Step One:  Select one of the two topics provided below.   

• Scenario One:  Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and W.E.B. Dubois have met at the site of the Gettysburg Address in the fall of 2007.  They greet one another, briefly comment on the contributions they each made to promoting equal rights for all citizens and then discuss the following question.  Based on current observations, what needs to happen next to propel civil rights forward?    
  
  

• Scenario Two:  Examine the leadership styles of George C. Marshall and Clara Barton.  Then craft an essay where both individuals give leadership advice to a 2008 presidential candidate.     

Step Two:  Read examples of historical essays  (Optional) 
This is not required, but it would be a great place to start since the end goal is to write a creative essay that responds to a question posed in STEP ONE. 

Suggestions Include:  

• Essay by Frederick Douglass titled, What Would I Do If I Were President?
• John Brown Essay after the attack at Harpers Ferry

Step Three:  Complete the research for the essay.
When a writer begins work on a new piece, he/she researches the people and ideas related to the topic to gain a clear understanding of the subject and to provide perspective.   Applicants for the Extreme Journey High School Camp program will simulate that experience by reading and analyzing primary source materials below that relate to the topic selected.  Ideally, the author will then weave the information from these documents into the creative essay. 

• Scenario One:  Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and W.E.B. Dubois have met at the site of the Gettysburg Address.  They greet one another, briefly comment on each other’s ideas and contributions to promoting equal rights for all citizens and then discuss the following question.  Based on current observations, what needs to happen next to propel civil rights forward?  
• The text for the Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Jefferson’s personal account of writing the Declaration of Independence
• Picture showing writers of the Declaration of Independence
• Article from Philadelphia newspaper from July 4, 1776
• Emancipation Proclamation along with a transcript
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Timeline for Emancipation Proclamation
• Background information on the contributions of W.E.B. Dubois
• New York Times article looking at race relations in 1930 and quoting remarks from W.E.B. Dubois
• President Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges, editor of the Frankfort, KY, Commonwealth, April 4, 1864 shares his feelings about slavery

• Scenario Two:  Examine the leadership styles of General George C. Marshall and Clara Barton.  Then craft an essay where both individuals give leadership advice to a 2008 presidential candidate. 
• Text from the Marshall Plan delivered at Harvard University in 1947
• Under Special Features on the sidebar review the Photo Gallery of the impact of the Marshall Plan and video clips from the period
• Background information for George C. Marshall  (Secondary source)
• Introduction to the work of Clara Barton from the National Park Service  (Secondary source)
• The Women Who Went to the Field a poem by Clara Barton
• War Lecture from Clara Barton
• Brief introduction to Clara Barton’s relief efforts after the Johnstown Flood
• Clara Barton describes Red Cross responsibility during the great flood of 1889 in the Philanthropy at Johnstown

 

OPTIONAL: Applicants may also search for additional primary resources

• Local archives, historical societies, historical sites, museums, and national parks.
• School, city, or town library--research librarians can be very helpful
• Local special collections materials
• Bibliographical sources listed at the back of books in the same historical context
• Publications like Cobblestone magazine that highlight various historical periods with stories, resources, and primary documents.
• The Internet. Begin with more general sites to locate the specific. 
• Library of Congress: 
• Library of Congress American Memory Project 
• National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places 
• National Archives Educators and Students page     
• National Archives collection of America’s historical documents 

• National Endowment for the Humanities 
• Avalon Project of the Yale Law School, Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy 

Step Four:  Write the Creative Essay 
The Creative Essay is a short literary composition on a single subject.  Usually an essay presents the personal view of the author, but for the purposes of this writing, it will present the probable views of historical figures based on the author’s analysis of primary source documents.  

Essay requirements

• The essay should not exceed 500 words
• Incorporate information from primary source documents creatively into the essay. 
• Use creative techniques to explore topics such as dialog among historic characters or first person writing from the perspective of the leaders provided in the scenario
• Ground responses in contemporary situations if possible
• Be sure essay includes an opening and closing paragraph with at least three paragraphs that comprise the body
• Explore consequences of ignoring contemporary problems

Step Five:  Create a scrapbook with one historical artifact.
The Scrapbook begins as a blank book in which various items such as newspaper clippings, pictures, or meaningful mementos are collected and preserved.

An artifact* is something characteristic of or resulting from a particular human institution, period, trend, or individual. An example is a wooden nail from Montpelier that helps identify when the home of James Madison was built since historians know when carpenters began using metal nails.
* Students can draw or create a replica of an artifact.  It is not required that applicants find an actual artifact.

Scrapbook requirements

• Focus on the points discussed in the essay 
• Include copies of primary source documents analyzed for the story
• Include one artifact that is related to the topic for the essay 
• Five pages recommended for a complete scrapbook.

This scholarship is sponsored by the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership
with the generous support of Jacqueline Mars

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