Josh and I went over our previous discussion about words and connotations. Afterwards, we spent some time reading and discussing the themes in the narrative "Turning Japanese" by Heidi Juliavits. I asked Josh to relay some information about our narrator based on specific instances from the text, and he did a very good job of coming up with ideas, but needed lots of support from the text itself. I am trying to wean Josh off of his reliance on the text to answer questions about characters, teaching him instead how to use the text to draw his own conclusions about the message, speaker, etc.