1/13/17 Bridget van Voorst

When each student walked into class today Mr. Rivers handed each of them a card or cards with a field of study on it. They had categories such as music and history written on them. I personally got two cards that said "business" and "mechanical engineering". These cards were simply to jog out memory on different forms of academic lenses. The cards were a simple transition into our topic of the day which was our upcoming senior paper assignment.

After a brief introduction given by Mr. Rivers, the class was instructed to look at the sample senior papers on the Google Classroom page. We were briefly shown one or two  papers to get the idea of the paper. We saw on specifically relating to history but did not read through it. Mr. Rivers advised that we read through more of them  on out own time.

When we were finished looking at the examples we began to start our assignment for the day which was choosing three possible academic lenses that we can write about for our own senior paper. The assignment will not be due until Tuesday when we get back to school. The class researched different topics and what each academic lens consisted of. It was interesting to think of what specific topics each of us could delve into for this paper. While the class was doing their research and thinking about the three topics they wanted to choose for their paper, Mr. Rivers walked around the class to answer and questions we had or address any concerns.

That was just about it for class today. It was a useful class and Mr. Rivers did a great job at answering our questions regarding the paper.