Tell your counselor you no longer have an interest in those courses and you want to use your time to focus on classes that you have a drive for. Also explain that you do not want any Fs on your record because you want to go to a university and even though those AP classes will help you are not prepared for them yet. If your counselor refuses again call in your guardians and then have make your counselor change it.
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.