This week in English 2 was all about good old-fashioned teamwork and critical thinking. The week before, we were grouped into four and each group was given a topic and was tasked to create a specific topic, specific claim and a thesis statement from that topic.
Our group, group 4, was assigned the topic "sophisticated new technology." Needless to say, it took us a long time to think of a specific topic and to formulate a thesis statement. But finally, we chose the specific topic "sophisticated new technology in the field of surgery." I guess you could say that our topic is very hard to swallow, but it was the only thing that came into our minds. Because we knew that it would be hard if our thesis statement was expository, we decided to make it argumentative by stating that the government should provide these sophisticated technology in public hospitals. Fortunately, the only thing Ma'am Lynnie criticized about it was that we needed to expand the statement by stating the ways on how the government should provide these technologies.
But our activity didn't stop there! From our thesis statement, we were tasked to come up with an outline. We really had difficulty making the outline, and a lot of our subtopics were made on-the-spot. Then, we were asked to critic on the other group's outline (hmmm...a very good time to put on our thinking caps). But thankfully, our outline was said to be okay and just needed a proper introduction and conclusion. Whew! Close call...
As implied from my previous statements, this week was not very easy for me. But fortunately, I was able to pull it off and learn a few things like creating and an outline and most importantly, about using critical thinking.
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