Middle School Writers Honored for History Essays
Two grade 6 writers won first place chapter honors in the 2024 Daughters of the American Revolution essay contest.
Yara Alchekakie won first place in the DAR Mission Hills chapter and Konstantin Stanojevic won first place in the Shawnee Mission chapter. Konstantin also learned this week that he won first place in the state of Kansas, and his essay will now move on to regional judging.
The essay topic for the 2024-2025 American History Essay Contest for grades 5-8 was, “Enjoying a new kind of Tea Party,” referencing the 1770's protest movement by American Colonists against the British due to taxes and laws, specifically protests led by women such as the Edenton and Wilmington Tea Parties. The DAR essay contest was established to encourage young people to think creatively about our nation’s history and learn about it through the lens of creative writing. Barstow lower and middle school students have consistently earned top honors in the local, regional and national contests for more than a decade.
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Konstantin (Kole) Stanojevic and Yara Alchekakie, students in Erika Sanders' grade 6 English classes, wrote about the tea party protest movement of the 1770s. They won first place in local DAR chapter
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