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Welcome to Priscilla's Teacher
Page!
This page is for students in
Priscilla's 9th and 10th grade Humanities classes. Please use the
site to view quint calendars, class expectations and guidelines,
homework and other assignments.
A good way to contact me
is right through this page!
Click on "Contact Me" and send me an e-mail.
What are the Humanities? Why do
we study them?
The
humanities are a way to examine what others throughout time
and in all places have had to say about what it means to be human.
Studying our past through the lens of Humanities allows us to see
the human experience, in whatever era, wholistically.
This means that in Humanities we understand our common human past
through History, Literature, Philosophy, Religion and Art and
recognize that it makes sense to examine this past as a unified
expression, not one to be segmented into individual
disciplines.
In this class, you will learn to think about certain times and
places in the ways in which the people understood them: through
reading literature, contemplating philosophies, viewing art,
understanding the narrative of history, and in all these efforts to
understand that all that we have is but an interpretation of a
certain time and place. As you will learn, not very much will be
considered a truth set in stone. Humans and the things they do are
more complicated than anything as simple (and as unattainable) as
"TRUTH."
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