FPOL
Looking back, I still cannot believe all that I have done and accomplished in PLP. To me, joining the program was single handedly the best decision of my life. I will always remember going down to Hanford Washington, in my first week of being…
Facilitation Friday – The Life & Accomplishments of JFK
Third blog post in one week! Stay tuned as the rapid-fire frenzy continues! Over the past few weeks in class we’ve been going through and learning history 12 decade by decade. In order to showcase our learning at the end of each week we’ve been…
Crazy Cuba
Although Cuba was indeed the trip of a lifetime, this book and this blog post have been giving me a major headache these past few weeks since coming back. I’ll get into the detailed creation of our book later on, but for now I just…
Media Influence Can Unite People In Common Causes
At the beginning of the 1960s, many Americans believed they were standing at the dawn of a golden age. On January 20, 1961, the handsome and charismatic John F. Kennedy became president of the United States. He symbolized a new generation and its coming-of-age, offering…
Richard “The Crook” Nixon
“We didn’t start the fire” was an iconic song written by American artist billy Joel in 1989. The song, among some of the hottest of 1989, reached the top of the billboard hot 100 and received a Grammy nomination for song of the year. Its…
Political Ideologies and The Political Spectrum
As our first unit in History 12, we did an in depth study on political Ideologies and the dynamic of the political spectrum. Personally, as somebody who loves to learn about the brutal wars of the 20th century, the tense nuclear arms race of the…
Hacksaw Ridge, A Testament To True Grit & Bravery
Just before Spring break we were learning all about World War Two, the causes and effects, specific battles, notable political figures, etc, and we were tasked to showcase all of our in class work through a series of baseline assignments, designed to aid with our…
“The ‘League of Nations’ Is For Dreamers”
Recently we watched a film in class called “Paris 1919” to learn about the Treaty of Versailles, and the political dynamic of the world in the immediate aftermath of World War One. As the baseline assignment we had to complete some fill in the blank…
History and Me
Recently, we were tasked to write a small snapshot autobiography of four significant events from our lives to showcase how even our own history can apply to the 6 historical learning concepts. As part of the assignment it was mandatory to write about your own…
A Historical Look at The Moon Landing of 1969
History is universally accepted among people as the study of the past. However the past consists of everything that’s ever happened to anyone, anywhere, so why do we learn about specific people and events in school and not others? Well the simple answer to this…