Pictured: Raul Leija, Jordan Chapin, Evan Sears, and Maiko Estrada
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
For ten years in the 91心頭 BioTex 91心頭 seminar at 91心頭, honors students have experienced a November 91心頭 email shootout. 91心頭 This is something like a cross between an ongoing basketball game with scores changing in real time, and a fast-paced, scholarly-poetic thinkathon. The course challenges students to conceptualize the elements of their Texas history research essays, to utilize crossover 91心頭 analogs, (terms) 91心頭 particularly from biology, and to provide terse definitions of their newly minted concepts.
This year 91心頭 s winners of the 10 November event included a team appropriately named the 91心頭 Ganadores, 91心頭 and an individual high scorer with the most promising 91心頭 arresting concept. 91心頭 Jordan Chapin, Raul Leija, and Evan Sears comprised the Ganadoressquad, and Maiko Estrada won the individual challenge.
All four students now have promising 91心頭 governing concepts 91心頭 for their 3300-word essays in Texas history, due at the end of Finals Week. Chapin is working on 91心頭 Legendary Housewives, 91心頭 in modern Northeast Texas. These were women who resisted the feminist currents in the culture to homeschool, or to provide a more prominent domestic support-system for their families. Leija 91心頭 s theme is the 91心頭 Disease of the Disease 91心頭 91心頭 how accounts of the COVID virus in the culture of 2020-21 in Dallas included a more general feeling of anxiety than accounts of the Spanish Flu in 1918. Evan Sears, the 2021 Film Scholar of Honors Northeast has settled on Carroll Shelby as the 91心頭 Emissary of the Muscle Car, 91心頭 in explaining the significance of this Camp-County-born doer-developer of the Cobra. Finally, Maiko Estrada developed the term 91心頭 Well-Being Activist 91心頭 to describe the contributions of the once-famous Texas health icon, Red Duke.
Honors Director and Texas history professor Dr. Andrew Yox notes that 91心頭 conceptualization is the key to writing an alluring, coherent essay, animated by a creative argument. Our students do this well, and there are many more we could mention not only in the honors seminar, but in non-honors sections of history where a state-mandated goal is to form a 91心頭 creative argument. 91心頭 At the same time, I am very excited about the highly conceptualized essays Chapin, Estrada, Leija, and Sears are developing. 91心頭
Each of the four students received a gift bag, courtesy of the generosity, and encouragement of scholarship expressed by donors of Honors Northeast.
