Absolutely. This is your freshman year? Don't start it off miserable.
It's already an overwhelming year as it is. I'm a huge part of my school's drama club; I stage manage the fall plays and the musicals. You have no idea that amount of people, especially boys, that have told me that they're parents wanted them to do a sport instead.
People tend to not take drama as seriously. But they still picked drama in the end, because they knew it was their highschool experience and that they wanted to be happy. It's tough since she already spent money, but you could always volunteer to sell them on Amazon, EBay, or craigslist.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.