Cabo began the session with writing today. He wrote to describe the emotions the character of Miriam experienced as she endured the transition into her new life experience. After writing, I had Cabo go back and add to each point, how he felt about her experiences. This is to teach Cabo that extending the thought process in writing to include personal interpretation comprises higher level writing. He then read the next chapter and discussed the theme of verbal abuse that carried throughout. We reviewed SAT vocabulary and he identified the words as they were used in context in a reading passage.