Chris Link 10/6

As I entered the classroom on October the seventh, of the year two thousand sixteen, I was greeted by Mr. Rivers by the door as he does everyday. The classroom was extremely cold at first, and I distinctly remember someone inquiring as to why this was, to which Mr. Rivers responded, "When I walked in here this morning they were pumping cold air in through the vents." I then proceeded to walk to my desk, and was not at all surprised to see that my laptop was not there because it was plugged in at one of the many charging stations. After searching every station that didn't have my laptop I finally found it at the last one. Knowing I had to write a blog today I pulled up my class notes page and wrote down all of these preceding events before I could forget them. Once the bell rang to signal the start of the period, Mr. Rivers strolled in and casually announced that we would be revisiting the topic of crafting our essays today. Immediately following that he posted the class ID and password for turnitin.com on his google classroom page, so that everyone could join and make sure that turnitin was working for them. Turnitin.com of course being a website where students can submit their essay's and have the site's software scour the paper for any plagiarized works. Once we had all signed up for turnitin he posted another assignment on google classroom. This one asked us to explain our goal for not only that class period but for the rest of the week as well in regards to the formation of our essays.

I answered this question by stating that I was planning to work on my topic sentences for my essay, and if there was time I would formulate a thesis. We then proceeded to work on our essay's according to the plan we had just set up. Mr. Rivers emphasized that this time should be used to work on the essay and not to finish reading or watching the movie that you had chosen. At the end of the class he asked us to update our response from before to see to what extent we completed our goals for ourselves.