Sam and I discussed the rubric to be used to grade her paper. I made sure that she understood the requirements. We then composed her thesis statement for her essay together. After the thesis statement, we created a brief outline for her paper. We searched the novel and the informational piece to decide which quotes from the novel she would use for textual evidence in her paper.Sam will write a rough draft of her paper to be turned in on Thursday, so we can discuss it together before she turns in her final draft. We ended our session by working through set B in the Sadlier vocabulary book.