Imagine that there is less than forty minutes left in school. Slumped over and half asleep, everyone is worn out from from the long school day we just endured. Hours of math worksheets, writing assignments, and science activities bore the students. Everyone walks into the last classroom they will be in until schools out, groaning with a frown taking up half of their face, yet the teacher, Mr. P., stands in the doorway with a smile plastered on his face like he is a clown. You can sense the students’ regrets of coming to school that day-- like they had a choice. Then, the students are separated into groups, only to learn about and fill out a worksheet on what happened on the third day of the battle of Gettysburg. Half of the kids didn’t listen
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Nevertheless, not taking history doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from recent tragedies and events, and it doesn’t mean we can’t learn the lesson on how different things can lead to others. Remember, almost every person in the United States has the internet right at their fingers, whether it be via phone or computer; you even are on the internet just to read this paper. I’ve never learned about World War I, World War II, or ISIS in history class and I already know a lot about it. Why? Well it was either because I looked up a video about it because I was interested, I learned about it from a book in Language Arts class, or I saw something about it on the news. And why would we ever need to learn about how France and England way back when fought every other week. I don’t believe that history class will be important for my future.
As presented, history class is most definitely the subject that will have the least effect on me when I am older. As a future engineer, I will never need to know the entire history of the world. It seems pointless for me to go through history class without it being important for me. It only leaves me to think: Why do I need take
Nevertheless, not taking history doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from recent tragedies and events, and it doesn’t mean we can’t learn the lesson on how different things can lead to others. Remember, almost every person in the United States has the internet right at their fingers, whether it be via phone or computer; you even are on the internet just to read this paper. I’ve never learned about World War I, World War II, or ISIS in history class and I already know a lot about it. Why? Well it was either because I looked up a video about it because I was interested, I learned about it from a book in Language Arts class, or I saw something about it on the news. And why would we ever need to learn about how France and England way back when fought every other week. I don’t believe that history class will be important for my future.
As presented, history class is most definitely the subject that will have the least effect on me when I am older. As a future engineer, I will never need to know the entire history of the world. It seems pointless for me to go through history class without it being important for me. It only leaves me to think: Why do I need take