Extra Credit

Math, English, History, and Science! What in the world do these things have in common? Why nothing of course. Except, you do have to read and write in the other three classes, and sometimes even do some critical/analytical readings. Also, often when your are reading or writing an essay for an English class, it's helpful to know other subjects like history and science to give you some background on the material. In science, often math is required and vice versa. To give a more specific example, when I was taking human biology, I had to write a paper on my first experience with nature, and I never would have gotten the A that I did if I didn't have the writing skills I had learned in my English classes. In my physical geography class, we learned about makeup of the planet, incorporating important historical events into the story. We also calculated things like the movement of glaciers over time, and we wrote an essay on the film An Inconvenient Truth, so really this class was a few different subjects in one! Another good example is macro-economics. In this class I have to do mathematical equations and relate them to economic principles, I had to understand the political science and history of economic principles and economics today, I had to write an essay on the economics of America today, and I had to understand the science of the field of economics, and this was just one class!