Topic 1:
Thesis Statement: Throughout school we have many classes that are not needed for our degree but taking courses that are different from your major will help enforce students to engage in their academic life to really think about what they want and if the field they picked was right for them.
Subpoint:
Sub-point 1: With taking many classes that may be necessary for your major will only help the students learn what they are interested in and not interested in.
Sub-point 2: Having such a broad horizon of classes will give students and appreciation for every class and major that they might of thought differently about.
Quote:
Quote 1: “Their hope has something to do with their own role as tourists in a foreign country and the way in which they conceive this role.” (Percy Page 2)
Quote 2: “To put it bluntly: A student who has the desire to get at a dogfish or a Shakespeare sonnet may have the greatest difficulty in salvaging the creature itself from the educational package in which it is presented.” (Percy Page 4)
1.) You seem to be right on target for your topic.
2.)The two sub-points may be too closely related and it might be hard to write about them separately.
3.)Your use of Percy was good. It felt like you really looked deep for these quotes.