What we can learn from this class

This week I was tasked with a whole set of new things throughout this class. In high school I was bad at two things, history and writing. Signing up for this class I knew that it would be a good healthy challenge for me with my writing. However, I was not thinking this would have anything to do with history. 

            Reading through the textbook that’s when it really hit me that this was a history class and a writing class. I thought I was in trouble.

            The saving thing about the class was the fact that it is music-based writing and history. Another thing that saved me was that these blogs are open opinion just throw words on a page that sum up the week in one page.  That is taking so much stress of me for this class.

            The songs we listen to are interesting in the fact that for example, the Star-Spangled Banner. A song we were all forced to learn and sing in elementary school and no one knew what the song was about expect it was about America. 

            One you get to middle school the national anthem goes away in place of the pledge of allegiance that you would have to stand up for everyday in homeroom and speak along with it. My first thing I remember about anything to do with politics or something to do with it was that in 8^Thgrade a girl in my class refused to stand up for it because she did like the line “one nation under god”. That was the first time all these really came to me and I realized that you don’t have to stand up for the pledge if you don’t want to. 

            Going back to the topic of the national anthem I believe that we should not be teaching young children this song until they know what the war was. This song has a lot of meaning to the war and everything that goes along with it. These children are growing up thinking that this song is just something fun from there music class. 

            Along with that I believe that everyone should know all four stanzas of the Star-Spangled Banner going through all four and giving a small lesson on each. They all have a lot of history to them and should be analyzed like a Shakespeare poem. The third one is something that I believe that later middle school or early high school. This is important and I shouldn’t have learned today that the British troops gave slaves freedom if they joined their side. I should have learned that in my junior year American history class. 

            My last thought is that I don’t really have a political opinion and I’m just starting to learn all about this stuff through this class because I thought that I was 19 years old and I should learn more about it.