In Bodies and Citizens, which I took during my first semester at Longwood as an honors course, we discussed several controversial topics. I was told that honors courses wouldn’t be more work, that it would be different work and I saw this first hand in this class. The many class discussions that we had in class did not initially seem like something we would talk about in a college course. However, my professor was able to stimulate this interesting conversation, while mediating it to stay comfortable for everyone to speak. Speaking in front of a class was not something that I felt very comfortable doing when I first came to Longwood, especially such personal opinions and thoughts. This class helped me to not be afraid to share my opinions and feelings about certain subjects and to gain confidence to talk in front of my peers.
At the end of the semester our final project was to create our own lesson plan for a semester for us to teach to “our class”. We were to use what we had learned throughout the year and apply that to our own topic that we were able to choose. Below is a link to my finalized project which included seven different topics that all correlate with education in prisons. I found this topic very interesting to research. Having to find seven different topics for my lesson plan was a little challenging, but this helped develop my researching skills. After completing the written report we had to present a final 3 Minute Thesis, 3MT, and present it to the class. Below is a screenshot of me presenting my project, via video recording. At the end I was very happy with what I had found and was proud of myself that I finished such a detailed project about a new topic.
