Humanities Class of 2018 Showcases Living History During Asian Fest
A classroom in Howell High School became another world, as students brought China to life.
The Scholars’ Center for the Humanities Class of 2018 presented Asian Fest 2015 on Feb. 28th. Parents and other students were swept away to the Far East. The students were broken into groups with the task of preparing a living history for a specific period in Chinese history.
The month of February was an intensive time of research, wall construction, script writing, and rehearsal for the freshmen students of the Scholars’ Center in organizing their individual group skits for presentations to staff, students, and parents alike. Each skit determined the costumes worn and the information to be shared based on the time frame it represented. Students certainly fulfilled each of these requirements and demonstrated a remarkable ability to excel in bringing their selected each time period to life for their audience.
The Scholars' Center for the Humanities at Howell High School offers a program that prepares students for numerous professional options through a curriculum that is both broad in scope and comprehensive in content. Through this multi-faceted program, students develop advanced research techniques, writing acuity, and sophisticated verbal communication skills. In addition, the center provides students with an opportunity to explore the liberal arts in an intensive, issues-oriented, interdisciplinary approach. Areas of study in the curriculum will include: government, history, anthropology, philosophy, literature, and the arts.
A concentrated emphasis is placed on developing analytical and critical thinking skills, research capabilities, and proficiency in written and verbal communication in addition to traditional college preparatory course work. Upon completion of the Scholars' Center's program, the student shall have acquired, developed, and applied the following skills: analysis and argumentation, expository, persuasive, and creative written and verbal communication techniques, problem solving through inquiry, research design and methodology, critical thinking, multi-disciplinary strategies and applications.