Last Tuesday, a woman suddenly entered our room in English 2. I didn’t have the slightest clue that she was our teacher. I was surprised that she was because she looked taller in the picture in her blog.
Well anyway, it doesn’t matter because I didn’t really get a good look at her picture so why am I complaining? Our teacher, Prof. Lynnie Deocampo was one of the most unusual and fantastic teachers I have ever been under. For one thing, she spoke in English with such fluency like she grew up in the States or something. I have a feeling this is going to be a class I won’t soon forget.
She then required us all to speak in English in our class even to our classmates. If we were caught speaking in the vernacular we would have to sing a song in front of the whole class (tricky…very tricky). But at least I was thankful she finally came so that we could finally start classes and have a proper discussion.
During that meeting, we began talking about concept mapping in order to ease the burden of trying to come up with a good topic to write about. She said that concept mapping is useful in deciding what topic to write about in our term paper and I agree. She also taught us how to state our specific topic. I took the liberty of copying the concept map she used as an example which was about education.
During our next meeting which was on a Thursday, we discussed about the concept maps we made last Tuesday. The teacher gave us some helpful tips when choosing a specific topic and when writing our thesis statement like not choosing a topic that even laymen know about, making sure that the thesis statement must be connected to our specific topic, using parallelism and etc.
And so here ends this week’s scoop. Until next time…
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