Today was a day of introductions. Sam and I discussed her interest in writing and reading. We discussed the creation of a Writer's notebook as described in Penny Kittle's book WRITE BESIDE THEM. Sam and I are going to each create our own Writer's Notebook and contribute to it all school year. We then read Peter Meinke's poem which is an untitled vignette to his son. We talked about the creation of our own vignette's. Sam chose her friend Anthony as the subject of her vignette. We talked about the brainstorming technique of clustering which we did for our subjects. We will draft our vignettes tomorrow. It was a pleasure meeting Sam today; she is a vivacious young lady.