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Written by the Students of Willits High School

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* 9th Grade Ancient Cultures Essays *
Prehistorical Times
  1. Stonehenge
The Ancient Near East
  1. Anubis
  2. Ikhnaton the Heretic King
  3. Mummification
  4. Two Great Discoveries made in the Valley of the Kings
  5. Women Who Became Pharaohs
The Ancient Greek and Roman World
  1. A Visit to Ancient Ephesus
  2. Was there really an Atlantis?
  3. The Ancient Olympic Games
  4. The Conquest of Alexander the Great
  5. The Nine Greek Muses
  6. The Parthenon
* 10th Grade Modern World History Essays *

The Middle Ages

  1. Genghis Khan (Temujin)
  2. Notre Dame Cathedral
  3. Prince Edward - The Black Prince of England
  4. The Life of Joan of Arc, Part I
  5. The Life of Joan of Arc, Part II
  6. Toledo

The Renaissance

  1. Filippo Brunelleschi
  2. Is Shakespeare a Fraud?
  3. Leonardo da Vinci
  4. Michelangelo

The Age of Exploration

  1. Hernando Cortez
  2. Montezuma II and the Aztec Empire
  3. Tenochtitlan
  4. Tikal
  5. Why was Prince Henry called the Navigator?

The Age of Kings

  1. Elizabeth the Queen
  2. Jan Vermeer
  3. Phillippe Auguste
  4. Rembrandt
  5. The Palace of Versailles
  6. The Six Wives Club of Henry VIII

The Age of Revolutions and Nationalism

  1. The Life of Marie Antoinette

The 20th Century

  1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Victim of the Holocaust
  2. Hitler's Final Solution
  3. Hitler's Youth (HJ)
  4. Okinawa Since World War II
  5. George S. Patton, Jr
  6. Teen Resistance In The Holocaust
  7. The Beatles
  8. The Easter Rising of 1916
  9. Emmeline Pankhurst
  10. The Life of Joseph Stalin
  11. The Myth and Mystery of Anastasia
  12. Nikita Khrushchev
  13. The Sinking of the RMS Titanic
  14. Mao Tse-tung
  15. The Tuskegee Airmen
  16. Sir Winston Churchill
* 11th Grade United States History Essays *
  1. Charles Lindbergh
  2. Frank Lloyd Wright
  3. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  4. Loves, Lies, and Legends about Abraham Lincoln
  5. Martin Luther King
  6. Sacajawea - "The Bird-Woman"
  7. The Battle of the Alamo
  8. Theodore Roosevelt
  9. The Fugitive Slave Act & Underground Railroad
  10. The Hindenburg Airship Disaster
  11. Where Does the Name America Come From?
  12. William Lloyd Garrison

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