In my second period we primarily learn about the present and upcoming global issues, for example the Israel and Gaza war. But, when we aren't learning about we are writing about historical moments like the fall of the roman empire and such, but from time to time we are given a prompt on the current subject and tasked with writing a timed essay on the said topic. an example of this is we were given the prompt "To what extent do you predict Artificial Intelligence will harm or help humanity? Support your claim with reasoning and evidence." and I wrote about the good and bad of ai https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hsadwucVamX2I4INNJkOALR18ZpxsnY32Q04NwkzeTs/edit . Some challenges I've faced is consistently writing essays after essays what feels like every week. But after a certain while I got used to it and wrote fairly good essays as a result. The 21st century skill I used is global awareness. The reason for so is that I used my information about different countries and their culture along with the current events happening in the present to create essays and other things.