Humanities, taught by Mrs. Small, is a combination of traditional English and History courses. In this class, we explore identity, culture, education, and other topics in pursuit of the fundamental question of what makes us human. Throughout the course, we also develop a variety of writing techniques, including synthesis essay writing, rhetoric, satire, and more.
The Walden skit was an introductory event in our Humanities class, where we took the lessons learned from the novel Walden and conveyed them through a short play. These plays were sometimes comical and sometimes dramatic, and were meant to leave the audience with a larger message that we ourselves learned through reading the novel. Provided below is the script from our play this year.
The satirical analysis was the culmination of the skills we learned during the satire and rhetoric unit in Humanities. As part of this essay, students were tasked with choosing a prompt and crafting an analysis based on that prompt. For my essay, I compared a satirical piece and an argumentative piece on a similar topic in order to determine which style was more effective in conveying its message.