### Title: Impacts and Applications of Modern Technology
**Synopsis:** This lesson focused on the ongoing discourse surrounding modern technologies and their impacts on daily life, advancing students’ understanding of technology’s role and preparing them for a structured argumentative essay on the topic. Students participated in a detailed examination of technology selection and justification, providing personal insights into how specific technologies have significantly changed their lives.
### Attendance:
– **Absentees:** Aitolkun, Jibek (mention of absence in historical context)
### Topics Covered:
1. **Class Introduction and Organization Issues:**
– Resolved registration issues for an upcoming trip.
– Confirmed attendance and transport logistics for the hiking club trip.
2. **Recap of Previous Discussions on Technology:**
– Brief recap of prior discussions about new technologies that have personally affected students’ lives.
– Emphasized the importance of arguing for or against certain technologies based on their impacts.
3. **Essay Structuring and Argument Development:**
– Introduced the concept of essay outlining and topic sentences.
– Engaged students in selecting a modern technology and discussing its impact on their lives.
– Example technologies discussed: smartphones, internet, social media, and drones.
– Discussed the structure of an argumentative essay, focusing on crafting effective outlines and topic sentences.
4. **Discussion and Practice on Technology Impacts:**
– Students shared personal anecdotes about how specific technologies (like the internet and smartphones) have benefited their educational and personal lives.
– Deepened understanding of technology’s role by linking personal experiences with broader technological impacts.
5. **Reading and Analysis of a Text on Antibiotics:**
– Transitioned from technology to medical advances by reading and analyzing an essay on antibiotics.
– Explored the structure of argumentative essays by dissecting paragraphs to identify main arguments regarding the benefits of antibiotics.
– Discussed medical terminology and its relevance to understanding technological impacts on health.
### Actionable Items:
**Urgent:**
– Ensure all students are registered individually for the hiking trip to avoid further confusion.
– Reminder for Aydana to register for the trip post-class.
**Later:**
– Revisit essay writing techniques, focusing on supporting arguments with multiple details.
– Plan a session to practice extracting and discussing main points from text, to enhance comprehension and analytical skills in the context of an argumentative framework.
### Homework:
– Each student is to select a technology that has significantly impacted their life and prepare a brief explanation on how it has changed their life.
– Write two topic sentences that will be used in their upcoming essay about the chosen technology.
– Detailed reading of provided text on antibiotics and completion of an exercise to identify and list the reasons given for the importance of antibiotics in the text.