Chase created an original "crime" story using her existing vocabulary and adding new vocabulary as the story evolved. All the grammar we have reviewed so far was put into play. I gave Chase the cues needed to create the story. She used: dates, times, weather, estar verbs with prepositions of location, ser verbs with adjectives of physical description, regular "ar, er and Ir" verbs conjugated in the present tense. We added other verbs as they became necessary to develop the story. She created and translated in Spanish over 90% of the sentences. Her story was original and well developed. When she was done, we spent the last 40 minutes practicing some of the grammar which had not been written into the story. We practiced with clothing, colors, adjectives, all the idiomatic phrases of tener (in all it's conjugated forms). Chase's writing and grammar are improving. Her Spanish reading is good. Her homework is to review the vocabulary we used today - especially the new vocabulary words added to enhance the story.