history

In my AP US history class, I was regularly tasked with creating flowcharts and timelines to incorporate my understanding of the class materials. My favorite example of this was my timeline of if John Brown’s Raid would have succeeded. This was an interesting project where I was able to use some of my creative writing skills and mix them with my history skills.

I worked with a small group to create a timeline of events from John Brown's Raid into the early 20th century.This aligns with the issn performance outcomes and goals because it was a project aimed to look deeper than just what is on the page but look at the historic causes and sways of events and create a variety of fictional events to base our presentation around. With the estimations but my groups took we were able to meet the educated prediction that if John Brown's raid had succeeded we could have seen the civil rights movement or something equitable possibly up to 50 years earlier than we did. This then posed the question: “How do our individual actions everyday contribute to societal good?”. It may seem small, but all of these actions can lead up to more equity and equality for all.

Following this, we had to justify our events after a series of questions from our teacher and students. Well this project dealt with fictional events and it helped us to more deeply understand the historical context surrounding many of the core curriculum events of our AP United States History Course.