Global Thinking

Global thinking is about not thinking of yourself and thinking about others. In soccer, this is about the teams giving back to the community by supporting them to workshops, charities, and more. Over the course of the year, I felt that I was limited to demonstrate my global thinking because I had a mindset that personal experience should be left out of writing, and I need a lot of evidence from books. However, I did demonstrate my global thinking in a couple of assignments.  

I demonstrated my global thinking in my thematic response #2. The prompt was “In what ways are Odysseus’s strengths also his weaknesses?” I chose this question because I needed to focus on how Odysseus affects others and not only himself. “Odysseus was on a straight-away from escaping, but because his arrogance was filled, he cried out his credit for blinding the Cyclops,” I wrote. I wrote about Odysseus in this situation because Global Thinking is about working in real-world situations. Although this is not happening to me, this affects Odysseus and his crew. Poseidon lashes rough waves at the ship, Zeus zaps down a lightning bolt, and the rest of the crew is gone. I concluded the response by saying if Odysseus was not so arrogant, he would not be picking unnecessary fights. This was my weakest work in terms of global thinking because it was not something that I experienced, but I recreated the experience by knowing that arrogance leads to impatience, anger, and disruptions.

I demonstrated my best global thinking in the Independent Reading Project for Storky by D.L. Garfinkle. Although this was a book I read originally for health class, I was glad to use it in my english class as well because it was a book I could relate best to. I make connections to books because they bring real-world situations that I have experienced. My IRP was about music. For example, one song I gave to a situation in the story was “Do You Know? [The Ping Pong Song]” by Enrique Iglesias. I wrote in that section,” Mike dreams about this girl a lot throughout the book. He imagines her as he writes,’Maybe right now Gina’s twisting her hair as she writes about her perfect, nickname-less, friend-filled day. And her major crush on me...Minor crush?’ (Garfinkle 3).” This piece demonstrated my best global thinking because there are many teens, including me, where you have a crush and you think about that person. However, because you are scared, you can only think about that other person. This is one of many real-world situations people face.

Overall, I do not have a lot to write about global thinking because either there may have been few assignments to allow me to do it or I never applied global thinking as much as I hoped to. More than half of my writing assignments throughout the year was thought to be structured with a prompt and scoring sheet. The prompt and scoring sheets were a fix in my mind that I was limited, so I wish I could changed that perspective to analyze further on my global thinking.