CCP US HIST 121 Portfolio and Reflection
Historical Content: Required
At the beginning of the year it took me about three hours to read a chapter of text. It still takes me about three hours to read a chapter of text. Reading may seem to take me an absurd amount of time but if I read too fast all the information is lost and I start to lose track of all the vital details that I need to know.
Out of all the chapters we have covered this semester my favorite was most definitely chapter 7. It was fascinating reading about many recognizable precedents in which our founding fathers had put in place while building the foundation of this nation. I also thoroughly enjoyed chapter 14 which shed a new light on what I thought was a simple war based on slavery. There were no chapters that I outright disliked although I personally find economics very boring and have a hard time reading about it.
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This class is much different. So many kids complain about having to take a history class clearly they have never had an interactive history teacher who tries to connect everything that happened in the past to the present day. The most challenging aspect about this course in my opinion was the short answer assessment. I am not a fast writer and struggle to organize my thoughts into an answer that is neat and comprehensible. I think I spend an adequate amount of time outside of class working on classwork and participate in class to the best of my ability most days. This last semester has definitely impacted my skills as a history student. The most important lesson I have taken from this class is that history is a living thing that never stops meaning, the things that occured 100 years ago will never stop affecting us and the things we do today will continue to influence future
In conclusion, my first impression was wrong, the classroom was not some kind of battlefield of teacher and student casualties. The students were not a lost cause that I imagine them to be. The students were well mannered and just wanted to be treated with respect. The classroom management was impeccable and astounding. It goes to show that although you may think you know a group of students you can be very mistaken.
The reason I took this class was because I needed to get some core classes out of the way. History and Science were the only ones left so I figured why not knock it out while on break. I wasn’t expecting to learn as much information as I have over the course of these weeks. This class was very interactive and intriguing, with all of the discussion boards and facts about our government and history being tossed at us! I knew but never realized the full extent of how much the public is kept in the dark about everything that goes on in our government. I was actually discussing this class yesterday with a friend of mine and she said, “every country always tells its history in a way that makes them look superior”. The way history has always been
The biggest lesson I learn during this class is time management. I have a 9 month old baby and he allows wants my attention. I had to rely on a family member to take care of him while I get a few hours to read the textbook and do the writing assignments. I had to truly focus on my work and not go to social sites because I barely had time to do so.
Students often see no relationship between their own lives and the past. Our culture’s emphasis on the push forward towards a better, modern, or post-modern future makes history seem irrelevant to them (Poska). Many students breeze through school without taking a single glance at history. They pass it off as a useless class that they’ll never need, or they take it simply for the credits. Unfortunately, this is a skewed view of the subject b...
This class was far more intense than what I expected but I was able to make it through the semester. I learned a lot from this class that I will carry into the future and use in other classes. All of the revision and feedback I have received during the time in the class helped me in the end. I feel like I am gradually becoming a better writer. I will take everything that I have learned in this class and use it for future reference when writing papers. I overall have enjoyed this class this semester.
In my 6th and 8th grade history classes I learned about specific dates in history and events, important people. More specific to 6th grade we learned about history’s mistakes but how we can make sure they aren’t repeated. For example, we learned about the holocaust but at the same time we learned the difference between an upstander and bystander, how to be an upstander, and how people during the holocaust filled those roles. In 7th grade history, we learned about current events in the world, how they connected to each other, and how they affected our society.
In this class, the most significant lesson I have learned is that everything has two sides (positive and negative) including history. However, history is hard to know because it was the past period. Most people just could know from the textbook and school. Unfortunately, normally it just shows the right side for people or avoids telling the dark side to people, so it causes they got misunderstand the whole history. James W. Loewen states, “The authors of history textbooks have taken us on a trip of their own, away from the facts of history, into the realm of myth. They and we have been duped by an outrageous concoction of lies, half-truths, truths, and omissions; that is in large part traceable to the first half of the nineteenth century”(Lies
History class in itself has a specific purpose which seems to be frequently forgotten. We learn about violent and horrible events in our past, as well as life- changing and positively impacting ones. From the negative events, we learn what went wrong and how to prevent similar tragedies from happening. From the positive, we gather knowledge and comprehension of the basis of our modern society. We are a self- repairing race, analyzing every flaw and figuring out what caused it. It's an ancient practice, trial and error is human nature.
Overall, I have learned a lot from this class. I must say there are topics that I am still confused about but only because I am just know understanding life from a different perspective. I am more open to now ask questions about things that I am not used to or even brought up around. For example, sexual libertarianism has views that sex is one of woman greatest power while I was thought that the vagina is one of women greatest power. I guess they both work together in sense of showing that women have a lot of
Teaching history in the public school system can present educators with a unique set of challenges that are not found in any other subjects or disciplines. Furthermore, the distinction between U.S. and World History course structure need to be identified in order to effectively incorporate textbooks, unit tests, state standards, and student prior knowledge into the class. U.S. and World History classes differ in many aspects; and the teacher needs to know how to separate the two distinct course structures.
When most people think about history they remember a boring class they took in school a long time ago, they recall memorizing important dates, taking map tests, and falling asleep while listening to a lecture. The truth is that history really is an important subject to be teaching students. History is more than just some lecture you receive in class, history lets us look back, see the good things and the bad things, it allows us to learn from our mistakes and prevent such mistakes from happening in the future. Things that happened in the past are still changing things that are happening today. History is needed for everyone, from government leaders down to individuals; everyone has learned one thing or another from history at some point in their life.
To someone that hasn’t taken this class, I would tell them that learning is a lifelong thing that you have to be proactive in. You have to be purposeful and intentional and aware of how you’re completing or learning something. As an adult, learning is not the same as it was in the second grade. You need to know how you think, and process, become aware of it, and use your strengths and weaknesses to your advantage, and learn how to improve your weaknesses to be able to become beneficial to you. Learning is something that has to be conscious.
Throughout this term, my fellow classmates and I have had a chance to participate in a group project with two or three of our peers. The general topic was a vivid problem in a industry. Our class had a very wide and diverse sets of topics: from Styrofoam, to industrial hacking, to corruption in an influential international organization like FIFA, and so many more. Our group decided to develop a project named “Outsourcing and the price we pay for brands”. The name itselves is somewhat self-explanatory, however the problem is so much more complicated and interesting. In this paper, many struggles and concerns, of the group and of my my own, will be unfolded as I reflect the progress of this project.
...rks. In a word, the MA experience was considered to be a bridge that combines the student learning with working skills, it would be of great help for my future career.
I thought that the teachers did a nice job with their classroom set up. I felt like I could have kept myself busy all day just by looking at the walls and seeing the pictures of presidents and famous historic quotes by famous people of our nations past. One thing I really enjoyed was the time the teachers allotted me at the end of each class to reflect to the class. Not only throughout my past middle school, and high school experiences but also, and most importantly, my current college experiences, the temptations that I have had to endure have definitely been rewarding.