Introduction

My name is Michael Rodenbush and I am currently a junior at Westborough High School. My family consists of my mom, my dad, my brother who is in the sixth grade and a sister that is in the tenth grade. It was last year when I first found out about the class Facing History and Ourselves. During that time I listened to guest speakers who came into my class room as well as fellow classmates that had already taken the course; they shared what the Facing History class was about and why it was definitely worth taking. Everything that I heard about the course was positive and nobody had anything bad to say about it.I heard that it is a class where you learn a lot about yourself and that was very appealing to me. I instantly decided to sign up for it because I knew that it was a popular course and there would be limited spots available.

            I was very lucky that I was able to get into one of the enormous Facing History classes during my junior year. As I am close to completing the course today, I can say that it was definitely the most influential class that I have ever taken in all of my schooling. During the course I watched numerous films that made me think about who I am as a person. Many of these films covered the exact events around the time period of the Holocaust. It was very powerful witnessing the true events that transpired during the world’s history. I knew about most of these events but they never really hit me as being this terrible until I actually was able to see them first-hand.