Michigan students can enter a statewide writing contest In celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. “Essays About Lincoln” is sponsored by the Michigan Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee, in partnership with the Michigan Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS). Entry deadline is April 4, 2009, and full details are available at www.milincoln.org.

The essay themes are broken out into two categories:

Grades 5-6:  Lincoln’s Leadership – Then and Now (What President Lincoln’s Life and Leadership Mean to Me)         

Grades 7-8 and 9-12:  Lincoln’s Leadership – Then and Now (How President Lincoln’s Life and Leadership Inspire Me Today)

The essay contest is designed to support Michigan English Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum standards, including those for language, literature, voice, depth of understanding, ideas in action, inquiry and research, critical standards, and historical perspective.

For more information, contact the Michigan Commandery at 616.827.3369 or patriotblue1@yahoo.com.