When i walked into my speech class the first day of my college career, i didn’t know what to expect. Than Professor Davis and Professor Rosen walked in and introduced themselves. They explained how the class will work and what they expect of us this semester. When i found out that this was going to be a combined class, i was kind of confused and didn’t know if it was a good or bad thing.
We went on our walking tour of the Brooklyn Heights and I was very surprised. My first week of college and I’m having field trips already. Nice! Well at first i thought it was just a walk around the neighborhood to check out what’s around City Tech. During the tour i was actually surprised on how much fascinating history there is in Brooklyn. We saw the old architechture of the homes in Brooklyn Heights. The outside of the homes are very antique. I actually learned a lot during the walking tour. The homes in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood are protected by a law that states that people can’t change the outside of the homes. Because of that law, we can still see boot scrapers outside these old homes. We also went by the promanade and saw the extraodrinary view overlooking lower manhattan’s skyscrapers.
I enjoyed the Telling Brooklyn Stories learning community because i really learned a lot of history about Brooklyn. During the classes we had assignments that encouraged me to take part of what i found interesting and learning more about it. Visiting the Brooklyn Historical Society made the class a lot more interesting because we worked with artifacts from Brooklyn’s history. We looked through old maps and journals that people have wrote in the 18th and 19th century. If i had a chance to take a class like this one more time, i definitely would.
