Spent the time to review the "triangle" of topic, writer, and audience. Used the example of Stop Question Frisk as a practice of the NYC policy department. Discussed the difference of a speech describing SQF delivered to a good group of policy officers versus a black audience. What happens within the minds of the black community when they see a police officer (especially a white police office) giving a speech to them? Discussed the question in terms of the audience's personal experience, personal knowledge, beliefs, assumptions, positions, and warrants. Went on to discuss the importance of acknowledging the beliefs, assumptions, and positions already in play, before the writer or speaker transitions to his or her contribution to the conversation. Reviewed two formulas: "Some people say....Other people would argue...Still others claim....I would suggest...." or "It might be argued that....It might be argued that....It might be argued.... Recent research suggests..... Discussed fleshing out Vlad's discussions of (1) financial disagreements, (2) cheating, and (3) falling out of love as three major reasons for divorce -- to be followed by Vlad's overriding cause of divorce: being unhappy. Discussed the place and risks of supporting a claim using examples. Discussed the need to break down and analyze reasons for people "falling out of love." Discussed how "unhappy" cause could be the underlying reason for (1), (2), and (3). Discussed the concept of "tipping point" and how "I'm not happy" or "Are you that unhappy?" could be the perfect tipping point. Discussed what would have to go into an introductory paragraph, what would have to go into a concluding paragraph. Tried out sample titles and discussed why some are much better than others.

In this activity, Vlad continued working on his final exam from NYC university.

Vlad was not available.

Introduced Vlad to the triangle. At the point of triangle put Topic; at lower left corner put Writer; at lower right corner put Audience. Audience has, personal experiences, personal knowledge, beliefs, assumptions, positions, and warrants. Writer can use research; "Some people say,... Other people, say....Still others say.... I would suggest......"; examples; 3 arguments. Always remember the importance of being open-minded, unbiased. Went through the exercise of writing an essay on the topic of the causes of divorce. Vlad filled in the arguments for "some people....other people....still others ....I would suggest..... Vlad's paper due Wednesday.

Vlad was sent the Walk Cycle file and instructed to open it. Vlad colored in figures, one per layer. He saved his work for the next class.

Vlad opened his Walk Cycle file, created a copy of of his animation, and downsized each layer by 1/8. Vlad opened the timeline panel and created a frame of animation for each layer. Vlad played the animation to make sure there were no issues. Vlad went through each of the frames and moved the character up and down to simulate walking over a set of hills. Vlad saved his file and exported it as an mp4 file.

In this activity, Vlad completed the Integration and related rates problems. These problems were in part II of the exam.

Vlad and I opened his file and began planning out his final animation.

Went over every area that needed editing: rewording for clarification; verb choice; verb tense; missing information to anticipate the reader's questions; redundancy; apostrophies and other punctuation errors including missing commas; italics where needed; paragraphing; citation links to Works Cited page; spacing used on Works Cited page. Using Google Docs, Vlad sent me copy of the finished research paper. Spent half an hour walking Vlad through the Purdue OWL website. Went over all the writing style guides Purdue teaches in depth, all the writing assignments Purdue OWL goes over in detail, and all the sample essays and reports Purdue OWL teaches and illustrates. Emphasized that Vlad needs to become fully aware of the wealth of information the Purdue website offers, and just as importantly, Vlad should check with his professors what style guide he or she wants Vlad to use. I mentioned that some engineering colleges publish their own style guides, and Vlad should be aware of which style guide to use with each assignment.

Spent time with Vlad researching Ninja Nerd Science and TEDEd. Read several articles and picked up a few new quotes for Vlad's paper. Added a new visual for the first paragraph to have a visual showing the spike in deaths attributed to Covid-19 worldwide. Added new entries to Works Cited page. Went over the importance to Part One of the Sandwich: citing the source of the forthcoming quote and providing the source's credentials. Double-checked that the paper fulfilled the promise made in the thesis statement and, secondly, the paper answered the questions posed at the start of the paper. Thought through the wording of the concluding paragraph.