The name "Thomasites"

BEARING
came from USAT Thomas,
a transport ship of the US
Army used to bring the

BENEVOLENCE
original batch of teachers.
The first wave of

IN THE
Thomasites brought in
about 509 teachers.

SUMMARY CLASSROOM
AND
The Thomasites were
Americans that travelled to
the Philippines for the sake
of educating the populace.
Despite facing resistance
and accusations that they
COMMUNITY
were trying to spread
Protestantism at first, they
eventually were accepted
into Philippine society as
kind and skilled teachers.
Moreover, they went
beyond their job
descriptions as educators
and contributed to their
communities during
disasters and other similar
STRENGTHS
OF THE WEAKNESS
OF THE
circumstances. During their
stay, the attempted to
inculcate in the Filipinos
Western values such as
ARTICLE: ARTICLE:
democracy and liberty.

The article went deeply into how the Americans Majority of the author’s
teachers taught and gave a good overview of it in arguments were focused
relation to the happenings in the community. It was excessively on the better
aspects of the Americans.
also very detailed on both perspectives of the topic: As a result, the negative
the perspectives of the American teachers and the aspects were
Filipino learners. A narrative-like writing style was used, underdeveloped,
overshadowed, and
helping make it well structured and paced to keep the neglected despite being
interest of the reader and deliver information to them an important point of
smoothly. discussion.