Today, Atticus started off class with a fifteen-minute sketch. He was allowed to look up a source image of a character from a manga he reads and draw that. He then got out the carving tools and set up his workspace. I did a demonstration review on how to hold the block and the gauge. I marked an area for him to carve out of the background and he practiced making smooth, straight lines with the U gauge. For the second class that I had with Atticus, he carved out the rest of the background on his image. He used the last fifteen minutes for school recess.