2/28/18

Class today comprised of Mr. Rivers introducing us and us beginning on our new assignment regarding our junior year reasearch paper. This new assignment is an outline of our research paper that is due on Tuesday March 6 and will be worked on in class this week and part of next week aswell. The project consists of creating and improving your research papers thesis statement over a period of four days, Wednesday (beginning), Wednesday (end), Thursday (end), and Friday (end). In addition, you will need to include your format for each of your four body paragraphs (claim, evidence, analysis/reasoning) and a MLA formatted works cited page. The assignment also recomends that you use research and evidence from your research sythesis essay. Mr. Rivers made it clear that for your sources must include your documentary, a scholarly article, and three to five other sources that do not have to be necessarily peer reviewed but they must come from either the Gale or EBCOhost databases and every one of these sources must be in proper MLA format in a seperate works cited page. After Mr. Rivers had finished introducing the project, we had about 25 minutes remaining to begin our initial thesis drafting/editing and we will continue our work tomorrow. This lesson/project assignment can be clearly drawn/connected to the real world because for many good, scholarly papers, wether they be for a job, college, or a blog, you will need to formulate ideas in your head and this can be accomplished through an outline such as this one. Additionally, this outline project helps outside of the classroom by showing students how to formulate, create, and edit a thesis statement to make it strong and descriptive while also being clear and concise. However, the main advantage of that correlates this project to the real world is the fact that it teaches students how to put ideas down on paper, compile them into a outline (such as this one), and then be able to produce a essay/paper on whatever topic you may be writing about.