Humanities

Humanities (Hum) is a class taught by Ms. Small that covers topics in English and history. We have learned about education, AP Lang topics like ethos, pathos, logos, satire, and logical fallacies, and we recently started the unit on social prejudice. We have assignments somewhat biweekly called “Hum Journals” where we write about life at Mass Academy, world events, and grammar. Scroll down to see some of my assignments!

Walden Skit

The Walden skits were the first assignment we had and were based on our summer reading book Walden by Henry David Thoreau. We did these in random groups within our sections, I was with Luke, Emmanuel, Sanvi, and Olivia. We did ours in a Dhar Mann style science fair that Thoreau judges. The moral is that Thoreau sees the beauty in simple things in Walden.

Original Satire

This assignment was to satirize a topic with a partner in any way we wanted to. We chose the fast pace of social media and how the creators only care about profit.