"Well done," she smiled. "Why don't you go grab a computer from the cart over there," she paused to point to a computer cart across the room. "and go research the most interesting subject you can find that relates to something you read and write a paper about it? It won't be graded, but I'll read over it! I'll write the requirements on the board." Eleanor went to the whiteboard at the front and grabbed a marker and wrote the following in large, loopy, handwriting:
Requirements:
At least 5 paragraphs, and 5 sentences per paragraph
Must have a title
Must be edited
You need a first draft, then rewrite into a final draft, and then finally the official paper
Get a classmate to peer edit your first draft along with your own edits
Then she turned around and called for the students' attention. "Hey class, when you're done I want you to write a paper about the most interesting thing that relates to something you read! Perhaps, it could be a subject, like the Moon War, or, maybe you have a question that you could answer throughout the course of the paper. The requirements are written on the board. And just so you know, it isn't going to be graded, but it must be done in this class only. You'll get classtime tomorrow to work on this as well, so no rush."
Iris silently handed her paper to Eleanor and then went to grab a computer. The teacher hadn't assigned them numbers yet so she just grabbed a random one. Sitting back down, she opened the chromebook and signed into her own personal account. The cursor blinked over the search box on the browser window that opened automatically for a long five seconds. What had stood out to her again? Oh yeah, the fact about the first magic users not knowing about magic at first…