Joe Schwab 1/23/17

Today in class started with everyone coming it class, getting settled, and writing down the objectives like every other day. Then when Mr. Rivers was done greeting everyone he began to speak to the class about the objectives which were I Will Be Able To specify topics by applying academic lenses, and I Will Be Able To use research to carve the purpose / function of my paper. Mr. Rivers said that you can “unpack” broad topics by applying academic lenses, essentially meaning making the paper more specific. The next thing we did was we were given specific topics and we used academic lenses to make a practice specific topic. We started working alone, then we came together as a group, then we came together as a class. Together as a class we went around the groups telling a specific topic from each group and adding them to make them as specific an possible. The different topics were happiness, success, school, and war, and we used the lenses of our choice to make a specific topic. Mr. Rivers stated that this process is to help with the purpose and what the function of the text is. After we were done talking about the process a little more we broke out individually and worked on the topics for our senior research papers. Mr. Rivers then said that this part of the process was due Wednesday and walked around answering questions.