James first completed our final assessment exercise on sentence clarity and paragraph organization. He did very well. As such, I then distributed material on essay drafting and organization. We initially discussed areas or subjects that James might be interested in exploring and using as an essay subject. He decided to argue in his essay that US goverment should more aggressively regulate the food industry in order to produce healthier choices. We then worked on a thesis statement followed by an outline of pros and cons to address in the essay. We will study organization of the essay and begin drafting next week.