US History II

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I am currently taking US History II this year, which is taught by Ms. Garvin. She is an excellent teacher. You can really tell that Ms. Garvin is passionate about what she teaches. While she is an understanding and sometimes lenient teacher, Ms. Garvin is tough, as well. She constantly has work, activities, projects, tests, and quizzes. Although some of the work is meant challenging, she does accept it late with a deduction of five points for each day. Overall, Ms. Garvin is an organized, enthusiastic, and helpful teacher that knows how to make class enjoyable.

I somewhat knew what to expect out of the class this year, since I had US History I with Ms. Garvin. I expected to learn American history from the end of World War II, where we left off last year, to the present day. In class, so far, we have covered basically only things from the time period of the Vietnam War. This includes, tons of movements and events, thought, like the Civil Rights movement, multiple presidential elections, and the Hippie movement. Ms. Garvin is able to keep all this boring information interesting by always having different types of activities for us to do. With group work, a field trip, trivia games, and handouts, Ms. Garvin always keeps the class positively interactive.

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One part of the class, that makes US History II interesting is Ms. Garvin's application of technology. For every chapter that we cover, Ms. Garvin has a PowerPoint presentation of important notes. I find this really useful, because I will have all the information I need to study at easy access on her website, and I'm able to concentrate, during class, more on the content of the information than on taking notes. Once in a while, we will even watch videos, during class, which of course makes the class more enjoyable. Lastly, we are occasionally assigned online projects, like creating presentations on https://prezi.com/login/?next=http%3A%2F%2Fprezi.com%2Fyour%2F. Ms. Garvin creatively incorporates the use of technology to make US History II a lot more interesting.