Abby and I spent all of our time on the novel this session. Since we spent Friday on vocabulary, we needed to discuss the novel. We answered the accompanying study guide questions. We discussed how the setting greatly affects the novel. We discussed author's purpose. We also made predictions of what we think will happen next. We began to discuss what the cumulative project of the novel will be. I also gave Abby 15 minutes of SSR--sustained silent reading. She will read more of the novel for homework.