The skills and content I have learned in World History are definitely valuable, but I canʻt say that I was always interested in what I was learning. Taking this class has helped me in a lot of ways. For example, I learned how to argue and defend standpoints by using the PEEL paragraphs. There are plenty of PEEL paragraphs that I had to write, and frankly, I donʻt think Iʻm too bad.
Two new skills I learned that I can potentially apply to other classes has to be argumentative speaking and speaking out in class. In class, we have “Socratic Seminars.” Socratic Seminar is a formal discussion, based on a text, in which a leader asks open-ended questions. In these socratic seminars, you gain understanding of what it feels like to be put on the spot. More times than not, like everything else, you have to prepare to do your seminar or else you won't succeed. You get to practice speaking in a controlled environment, argumentative or not. Itʻs like killing two birds with one stone. There have been a lot of topics that have been covered throughout the year. But my favorite has to be World War I. Obviously the second World War was also interesting. But World War I in particular is what interested me the most. It was more of the evolution of society between the two wars. One was fought with nothing more than cannons, guns, and a bunch of dug up holes for men. The other was fought with world destructive power. Majority of the information I learned came from the “InterWar Years Lecture” assignment we had. My Kahiau project is “Life on Land” and life on land is something that I have always been interested in. So learning about how the world is changing every single day is almost baffling in a way. Learning about the history and now, as well as everything else in between makes me feel more engaged.
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