Students will learn to question underlying assumptions and deconstruct how meaning is structurally produced.
Introduction to high-level inquiry verbs and etymologies.
In Classes 9 and 10, your primary task was to analyse—to break a concept into its parts, question how it works, and perhaps challenge its surface-level accuracy. As you transition to advanced senior secondary and pre-university levels, the expectations deepen. You must now look behind the text. We call this moving from analysis to interrogation.
The word interrogate comes from the Latin interrogare (to ask or question). But academically, it means aiming a spotlight at the underlying assumptions of a statement. For example, instead of just analyzing a company's balance sheet, a commerce student interrogates the accounting standards themselves—asking who benefits from how 'profit' is defined.
Visual metaphors for the 8 focus words.

Shining a spotlight on underlying assumptions.
Visual metaphors
Classification exercise distinguishing basic analysis from deep interrogation.
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Definitions
Sentence completion using focus words in academic contexts.
Before accepting the rapid growth of the gig economy as purely beneficial, the underlying labor policies must be rigorously to reveal potential worker exploitation. In her literary research project, the student had to the classical myths to understand how gender roles were historically constructed. Rather than relying on a single clinical trial, the medical researchers conducted a comprehensive of fifty independent studies to confirm the new drug's overall efficacy. Furthermore, qualitative researchers in sociology must practice strict , constantly acknowledging how their own biases and cultural backgrounds might influence their field observations. Finally, the modern debate over whether artificial intelligence can truly 'know' something fundamentally challenges our traditional and definitions of human cognition.
Extended writing practice with AI feedback.
Goal: Do not just offer counter-evidence (like pollution). Instead, question the framework itself. Whose living standards? By what measure? What defines an 'improvement'?
Name one underlying belief this statement takes for granted.
Write exactly 3 sentences interrogating the framework.