Today, Hunter and I discussed chapters 4 and 5, which he read for homework, and read chapter 6 together. We added vocabulary words such as meticulous and scrupulous to his list, and we did some critical thinking exercises when I asked him to think not only of the details that are given to us about this new world in the novel, but also what is LACKING in this new world--we identified lack of variety in family units, language, culture, skin color, etc. He wrote a journal entry as a summary of the previous chapters and will continue reading the next two chapters for our meeting on Monday.