First Jake completed a grammatical assignment where he had to revise two incorrect sentences. Next, Jake and I read The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury. We stopped frequently to synthesize the symbolic wording of the story with the author's purpose. We pointed out literary elements and made a list of vocabulary unfamiliar to Jake. At the end Jake wrote a short summary of the story using two pieces of evidence from the story. We discussed ways to revise his summary and, lastly, we covered the steps to writing a research paper and discussed which book he would like to focus on during our sessions.