It was a pleasure meeting Hudson today! He was such a great student during our session. Today we discussed paragraphs and composition in our writing lesson, and varying sentences in our grammar lesson. We worked from the 8th grade Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar curriculum, lesson 3.1 Writing Effective Paragraphs and lesson 21.3 Varying Sentences. In writing, we discussed the following key terms: paragraph, composition, topic sentence, main idea, implied main idea and supporting sentences. We read and discussed examples, then Hudson hand-wrote answers to questions in Exercises 1-4 where he had to identify a stated topic sentence, identify an implied main idea, write a topic sentence and write supporting sentences. In grammar, we discussed what it means to vary sentence length and structure in writing, and why this is important. We read through and discussed an example paragraph which illustrates varied sentences. We read through and discussed strategies to support and develop the main idea. Hudson completed Exercise 4 Writing Supporting Sentences where he hand-wrote two supporting sentences each for five topic sentences.