HIST 150

This was one of my honors classes I took my first semester of my freshman year.  At the beginning, I was really scared about this class just based off of the title of the course: The Early History of Gods.  I am not the most religious person so I was nervous that I would not do well in the class because I lacked a lot of religious background.  The first half of the semester was a little rough as I did not understand the content super well and I couldn’t figure out how to participate in class to get credit for that.  However, I ended up going to professor Issacs office hours a lot in order to get help and in return I started to do better in the class.  I slowly learned how to jump in and get my thoughts out so I could participate in class, and I began to do better on my essays.  Overall I ended up with an A- in the class and was able to grow tremendously from getting his help outside of class.  The one, most important lesson I learned in this class was to take a shot at participating without being scared even if you think you’re wrong because a lot of the time you know more than you think you actually do.

Artifact:

History 150 Artifact

Title: Semester “Time” Project

Author: Katelyn Weber

Date: December 3, 2018

The artifact I chose for this class was our final project paper.  We had to write a narrative paper that consisted of time traveling back to a period we had discussed in our class.  I chose Ancient Rome as my topic and had my three roommates and I be the main characters of the story.  This project allowed for us to show our creativity and imagination while at the same time integrating a lot of the core content from our class into our paper.