Introduction

My name is Zach Howe, a student at Westborough High School. The Facing History Course taught by Mr. Gallagher at Westborough High School is a class that is only offered to Seniors at Westborough High School. This History Course is taught to seniors for them to see the history that was considered a groundbreaking event and to respond to it for themselves. Their emotional response would be what they were seeing for themselves and responding to the history that was shown to them. The reasons that I chose to take the course in the first place is that I thought that course would be interesting and allow me to view what I thought about some historical events that transpired. I heard from some of the Seniors from previous years that the course was a fun one and it would be a great course to take for the senior year at Westborough. A little bit about myself is that I am a Senior at Westborough High School and a High School athlete, I played football for my last year and finished in the Fall. I do recreational basketball in the winter and Rugby in the spring. I see myself as an average b range student. So taking the Facing History and Ourselves Course was for me a great decision because it allowed me to view my emotions on what Mr. Gallagher sees as groundbreaking historical moments. I have used the reactions that I have found in me to gauge myself as a person and to see how my decisions and the ways my views on life have changed because of the Facing History Course taught by Mr. Gallagher at Westborough High School.