Yesterday, Craig and I had a 10 minute conversation about the setting of the book, the ocean that divided Africa and America, and what was happening at the same time in the U.S. Today I repeated it, almost verbatim, questioning Craig and asking him to fill-in-the-blanks (since he did not remember any of it). This is not unusual. For example, I asked "What was happening across the pond?" X "What is "the pond" I am referring to?" X "Thomas Jefferson sent people to Paris to negotiate the purchase of _______________ from _____________?" Then, the following year, he sent __________ & ___________ on an expedition to explore the new territory?" etc. All of the same information we discussed the previous day, and preiously this year in class. He still cannot tell me the name of the ocean on our coast, very little detail about where the Barbary coast is, and cannot remember lattitude and longitude. - even with daily drilling and repetition.