Charlie summarized the first chapters of his book, The Giver, to catch me up from last week. We then reviewed the eight elements of critical thinking and found ways that these naturally applied to the events in the text of the next chapter that we close-read together with discussion. We saw a pattern in the book showing a progression using a clever technique of ages 1 to 12 and the symbols attached to each group with the underlying meanings. This is on the whiteboard. Charlie needs to find things for the Ones, Twos, and Threes. Charlie realized that he is the same age as the protagonist, which helped engage him empathetically with what was transpiring in the story.