History Skills for Your Future

History for You...Why? 

1. Helps you to understand societies, peoples, and cultures in your world and in the world.
   
2. Helps you to understand processes of change that affect you.
   
3. History challenges you to develop ethically and so develop your character.
   
4. History helps you to develop and identity that securely grounds your thinking.
   
5. History helps you to develop citizenships skills so that you can intelligently vote.
   
6. History gives you skills to work, live, and love:

• learn to assess conflicting interpretations of your own and other’s actions;
• provides examples of how other people have changed and so you can use them as a model;
• helps you to develop reading, writing, and listening skills;
• it's just fun!