Jason Watanabe
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Class of 2025
I took MUN all four years and had Wat freshman and senior year. For freshman World History MUN: Mr. Wat is one of the most interesting and passionate teachers you will meet at CHS. He wants to make sure that everyone feels comfortable in the MUN program, so he has a lot of group social activities planned. Many kids go in with a fear of public speaking or socializing, and come out as some of the best speakers in our whole town. The World History portion is very straightforward- he presents things on the TV for you to take notes, and collects them for points sometimes. There'll also be a bunch of assignments, including a massive group project where you enact an event in history (e. g, collapse of the Berlin Wall or end of World War II) which is super fun and always brings back good memories when you get older. The tests are around 200 questions, but many are easy and around 50 of them are of the World Map. You'll color in your Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa maps and be pretty familiar by the end of the year. Moving on, the Model UN part of the class changed my life. You learn to discuss political stuff, give speeches, and do research papers, which sounds scary but is actually pretty chill when you realize everyone's learning the ropes too. If you put in the work and push your friends to get awards and succeed, you'll understand the crushing defeat and immense joy that MUN can bring. You just have to be willing to learn. There will be DAO Workshops, which are basically freshman help workshops, where the juniors help you guys prepare for everything. It's like a big family and the best organization/club at CHS, easily. For senior Civics/Econ CP MUN: Mr. Wat is one of the goofiest teachers at CHS. At this point if you've made it this far, you earned your spot and Mr. Wat thinks you deserve to be there. Wat talks about a lot of modern stuff like stocks, government, finance, and has like five projects which are okay. You get married to your friends, start a family life, do advertising/marketing, run for president/representative, and do all sorts of real-world business stuff. His grading system for the presentations is wack, but as long as you do all your assignments and do extra credit you will get an A. Same presentation style as freshman year, but tests are now 100 questions and very straightforward definitions and situational uses of the definitions. Take notes when he talks, because a lot of it ends up on the test. For the MUN portion, make sure you do 4 conferences to get your stole (the cool ribbon for graduation) and help out the underclassmen as much as possible. Overall this class was one of the most engaging because there was so much real-world discussions, and you're familiar with most of the class by now. You got this!