Jaydn completed the novel Where the Crawdads Sing in the last session. Today she watched a video of an interview with the author Delia Owens as she took the interviewer through the setting for the novel in the marsh land of North Carolina. She discussed how and why she created the protagonist, Kya. This interview brought the novel alive to Jaydn. Jaydn also learned the importance of researching an author's background before or while reading a novel. It brings tremendous insight into the characters and setting. We again discussed the term self-defense and Jaydn pretended she was a prosecutor and then a defending attorney. She took text from the novel and created a court room scenario for both defending and prosecuting the protagonist. I then introduced the next novel to Jaydn and ended the session.