Introduction

Facing History and Ourselves is awesome at Westborough High School. The course is a semester long (I wish it was the entire year) and available to juniors and seniors. The main focus about this course is finding out, who are you? Do you start the trouble? Do you stand by and watch as things evolve? or do you do something about it, voice your opinion? In class we usually watch movies on situations likes this and about the Nazis and Holocaust, one of the greatest inhumanities of all time. On occasion we tend to just have class discussion, for example on the Penn State scandal or other current events. What makes the course even better is we are free to say what we want when we want to, which is a huge freedom in class and you won’t be judged on what you say. The course is well designed and as the semester comes to a close I feel like my outlook on things has changed, in a good way.
I chose to take this course initially because I heard it was fun, Mr. Gallagher was a great teacher, and there were lots of movies. I’m not going to lie, I thought it was a blow off class, but it became something else. I noticed I used to be a shy guy with little to say and stood on the sideline but now I am not afraid to voice my opinion. The class is a life changer and by all means I recommend everyone to take it.