Charlie took a quiz on last week's materials, including some higher-level vocabulary words, scoring 80. He is beginning to read his new book, The Giver. We watched a trailer which gained more interest, discussed several elements of critical thinking in relation to it, and then watched the first five minutes of the film. Charlie made good inferences as to why the movie changes from black-and-white to color selectively -- very astute comments inferring the difference, the uniqueness, of the protagonist in the area of perception. We discussed point of view, and possible outcomes from where we stopped watching. We then read (close reading) a few pages of the book to compare the beginning of the writing to the start of the film.