Hunter and I continued working through grammar problems - the use of abbreviations, contractions, slang, starting a sentence with a conjunciton, ending with a preposition, and splitting an infinitive. Hunter read "Most Valuable Player," a poem by Arsdale, and answered dependent questions. He learned new vocabulary - repugnant, gratuitous. We read "The Book Thief" aloud together and identified figurative language and new words. We looked at four different types of essays and Hunter chose to write a descriptive essay next, about Costa Rica. His goal is to write with descriptive language that appeals to the senses and emotion. I assigned HOMEWORK. He is to choose adjectives and words to use in the Costa Rica essay.