Hi! I’m Sam Yang, and I am a sophomore at Monta Vista High School. I will be teaching History in the spring. Ever since I first started learning about history, I have been captivated by the stories of those who lived before us, and I am particularly fascinated by World War I and II. History is important because a large portion of history is people doing wrong to other people, and I want to help educate today’s kids to be more tolerant, more sociable, and more intelligent people than those before them. I want them to walk away from this class as not only more knowledgeable, but better people. I have theatre and acting experience, so I intend to make my class as fun, interactive, and interesting as possible. In my free time, I play the guitar, sing, do theatre and play baseball. I look forward to teaching this class!

I am Sean Yang, an 8th grader at Kennedy Middle School. This year I am very excited to be the teaching assistant in the World History class. I have been playing piano for seven years and just passed my level-8 certification last year. I also play baseball, and swim on a competitive team. I’m currently learning how to play the guitar which is really fascinating. In a recent middle school production of Singin’ in the Rain, I was fortunate enough to play the lead role, Don Lockwood, and learned a great deal about working in a team.