Kayla started class practicing writing complex sentences. She then edited sentences containing improper parallelism and comma splice, to review mini lessons covered lately. Next, she completed the SAT Question of the Day on Collegeboard.com then we moved into writing essays. Kayla reviewed her student-friendly rubric and discussed components and quickly went over essay structure. Then we set the timer and wrote an actual SAT essay in the allotted 25 minutes, the prompt was from Collegeboard's site. Then we scored our essays. Kayla's was nearly a 3, needed more topic and detail development, contentions are weak, and lacking organization. Her focus was on point, and she demonstrated critical thinking skills and pulled in supporting examples from her life as well as a movie to tie together and make her point. This essay will be used as a baseline, and allow us to pinpoint exactly what is needed for improvement. I guided Kayla through Identifying Sentence Errors on actual SAT questions, this is an area that needs improvement as well. Kayla left early for an appointment.