This week in U.S. History we took a bit of a different approach to the Civil War. Instead of the typical read-discuss-and-analyze approach, we instead watched a movie (Glory) and completed a written assignment. This historically accurate action movie gave us a direct perspective into the 54^th regiment and an idea of what warfare was like back then. While we discussed the war and watched the movie in class, Mr. McGowan asked us to do a semi-creative writing assignment out of class. He posed the question of ‘What would you die for?’ on Monday and told us to turn in 300-400 words on it later that week. Men in the Civil War were dying for human rights and their country, so what would we die for? The question really made me appreciate the soldiers in the wars of today as well as the past and made me dive deeper into what I would fight for. The week was a wholly new way to approach a historical event and made for a great lesson!