Ben was not interested in working today. He was looking for excuses not to work. He was searching online all of his ailments and diagnosed himself as having Bronchitis. I let him tell me how he felt, and then we got to work. I wrote on the board a review of the transformations we've already seen. We discussed stretching, shrinking, reflecting, moving up, and down. Today we added onto this concept by translating the absolute value left and right. I showed Ben with a table of values why the + moves the graph to the left and the - moves the graph to the right. At the end, I gave Ben a challenge problem combining all three of the transformations. Ben knew how to graph it. He was able to graph a reflection, translation right, and up, all together. Then I had Ben determine the domain and range. He again, got it right. He seems to really be understanding this content. When he's ready to work, he does very well.