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Our Humanities class, taught by Ms. Small, is not your normal English class. We combine english, history, parts of sociology, and even a bit of neuroscience at one point, all to answer the question: “What does it mean to be human?” We start the year by performing skits regarding our summer reading book, Walden, then moving on to education, the use of AI in school, rhetoric and satirical analysis, and most recently, working on learning more about identity and different parts in culture and how we see ourselves compared to how people perceive us. We work with a lot of class discussions, readings, analysis, and bi-weekly journals to learn and talk about and think critically about what things shape our society.

Satirical Analysis

During our satire unit, we examined multiple different examples and types of satirical writing, and worked to see how effective or ineffective they were. For our final assignment of the unit, we were assigned an essay where we could analyze any piece of satirical writing and examine its satirical devices and its effectiveness. I chose to analyze “Babycakes” by Neil Gaiman, which talks about a future where there are no animals left on earth.

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NYT Project

In our HUM class, all of the students were required to participate in a competition for the NYT, reflecting on how AI has affected our lives. We were allowed to use any type of media to represent this, but my partner and I decided to write a collection of poems to show how the use of AI in schools and life in general has affected the younger population in recent times and how it might affect them in the future.

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