As we began a new essay on Friday, we started today's session by my distributing a list containing transition words and phrases. I described when and how to use these transitions and the difference between a short answer response and a developed essay .I further provided alternate verbs to incorporate into an essay such as "portrays, illustrates, evidences" etc. We then discussed chapter 11 of the book and reviewed Atticus' homework responses making modifications where appropriate. Last, Atticus worked on a vocabulary exercise using words from the novel.