Dianna Oelkers 1/23/17

Today in Mr. Rivers' class Mr. Rivers explained to us that we should begin to specify our senior paper topic.  He said the reason as to why to do this is to allow the paper to have a focus point, to make it be less broad, and so the paper is more manageable. For example if your lens is education you can do "how a school functions in war", having the topic be this, it creates more of a focus point, rather than the topic being broad (you can create a more specific topic with anything that fits your lens). After this we watch went off on our own and took a broad topic, that was given to us, and made it more specific. We proceeded to look at our proposal and began to brainstorm on how to make it more specific. If you didn't have your  completed proposal you went on and continued to research for it and complete the assignment on google classroom that is shown below.
"Use your academic lens to unpack broad topics. Then use your research to carve out your purpose."