Craig and I quickly reviewed vocabulary that will be on the Quiz on Friday. He did not take home flashcards made in class on Friday, so we found them and made sure they were put in the backpack. He was reminded that they should be studied to prepare for the Quiz. We spent most of the class today re-doing the homework assignment from last week, since it was not completed. Craig responded to the writing prompt with one sentence, which did not answer the question. We discussed issues and concepts. I directed Craig to ideas that would answer the question and guided his thinking to connect ideas and help him to formulate a response that was 3 to 5 sentences. He could not do this on his own. I had to supply the information and then instruct him to write each of three sentences to answer the question. Once this was completed, we looked at TedEd and watched a short video "How One Piece of Legislation Divided a Nation". This explained the significance in history of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its relationship to issues of slavery and the Civil War.