Introduction

        My name is Patrick John Hession and I am a senior at Westborough High School. In my senior year, I decided to take a course called Facing History and Ourselves and it was one of the best classes I have taken in my four years of high school. The class has a way of not just teaching the students the material, but rather making a large impact on the way each student feels about the material we are learning. The goal of the course is to show the students more about several significant events in history and go into depth about them. We learn to face the truth about history and form our own opinions about how we feel about each event.

       I chose to take this course as I've enjoyed many of my former history classes and heard several good things about Mr. Gallagher and this class. During class, we watch movies and documentaries that teach us valuable lessons about the past and even just life in general. Hearing about this prior to taking the class made it an easy decision to select this course. I enjoy watching movies and learn better from visual references so I was sure this class would benefit me. I was also informed that the class's grade was based on blogging a couple of times of week about what we learned in class. I really enjoyed this aspect of the class as I wasn't stressed out and could really focus on expressing my opinion. This part of the class also helped me retain information that we learned in class really well. Overall, my experience in Facing History and Ourselves was well spent as I learned many new things about history and most importanly learned how to form my own opinion about each event. Ultimately, I would reccomend this class to everyone and believe that it should even be required for all students at Westborough High School to take.