In Humanities, taught by Ms. Small, we use a bunch of readings in history, literature, and culture along with activities like essay writing, group projects, and class discussions to answer many questions. The most important of these is a question of what it means to be human. Although I don't think any of us really have an answer yet, we're working towards getting there.
Some assignments that I've done so far this year are below.
The second unit that we did in Humanities was about education, whether international or within the US. A large part of this unit was discussing the current state of our education system and how it could be made better or worse. This essay was the culmination of all our discussions; we each picked a prompt based on a question that we thought of and wrote our essays about them. The prompt that I chose for this essay was about the insufficiencies in the American education system, as in where it's lacking and how it might be better.
Soon after the education essay, we talked about cultural historical differences. Part of this was us discussing some recovered poems from a place in Egypt called Deir el-Medina. We had to analyze some poems that we read and write an essay about the poems based on a series of prompts that we had. I selected a prompt about the differences in writing between male and female speakers.