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Professor Hendricks
Reflective Essay
Before taking this class my history knowledge was minimal, but I can
Hills and my second semester back from a four year long break from
School. Needless to say, history has not been my strongest subject, but I
the subject and the effort I put into taking the class. On top of that, I have
helps the subject to be a bit more interesting. I think what felt most
intimidated by about history was the many different dates and their events
and I played a trivia game and my team won because I remembered Ronald
Reagan was an actor before he was President. You made history very
interesting, especially with your extensive knowledge about the subject and
the many facts you shared with us. Dates and time periods flowed much
easier in my mind due to your method of teaching the lectures. I really did
like the flow of the lectures. They were both interesting and easy to see the
perspectives. Before this class, I had read about Japanese internment camps
only in history books. Farewell to Manzanar told the story about what
view of what had happened and because of that view I was able to gain
more overall knowledge about the subject. This class has taught me the
California missions very differently than I have seen done in the past. For
instance, instead of making the old sugar-cube models of missions I love the
idea of taking a class field trip to physically see a California mission. The
presentations. Before this class I would have done one or two lesson plans
before going on this field trip, but now I can see how essential it is to have
numerous discussions about the mission before going; mission life can be
explained much differently from Father Sierra than from the point of view of
mission that might not go into depth about some of its controversies.
With these activities we could have created moments that could have
activity or group discussion that was based on the material I could have
looked back on that when faced with the test. I did appreciate some of the
lectures being off the cuff because of your extensive knowledge of the
material. Not having a structured lesson plan made the class more