WELCOME

Welcome to your second year at Newark Tech. I hope you had plenty of rest this Summer and are very excited to engage your countries history, and mostly, to make an evaluation of your purpose within it. Now that is not what New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards specifically wants you to do, but, it has been my point, as a teacher, to get you to evaluate yourself within the context of America's History. By submerging yourself or at least pondering on the ideas and experience of America's mythological founders and purpose driven events, you will be able to guide and design your future in a way that makes sense to the realities of this great country.

You are expected to work hard, thoroughly, and honestly throughout the year. At times, we as a class will dig deep and work harder than we have ever worked to get out goals accomplish and other times we will simply work at a steady confident pace through the curriculum.

We will begin our school year, by analyzing the meaning of America in our own eyes. We have and constantly see and hear others perception of us, but, we will for ourselves, decide what it really means to be an American. With Barack Obama as our current and first African-American President since the founding of American in 1776, we must begin to re-examine shameful and amazing history of America and its meaning. No longer can you call America a racist place, or can you. No longer can you call America a sexist country, or can you. No longer can you call America unfair to minorities, or can you. These statements must be answered throughout the year and constantly discussed as we further dig into American History.

I welcome you and hope that you are ready to enjoy the history of America as I do, or at least come to appreciate a history that is responsible for determining who we are as citizens, a people, a gender, or as students.