Today, Ryan practiced an exercise with his vocabulary words in context. With some guidance, he did well. He is learning to connect to the words personally so that he can remember them. He will have a quiz on these ten words next Tuesday. We then worked on the writing process and developed his literary analysis response a bit further. I asked him to work on this in conversation with his family at home this week to spark some ideas about how to connect the theme of "The Lottery" to real life, as this is the prompt he chose.