Kate and I had a fun activity of listing at least one word with connotations positive and then negative through the entire alphabet -- written on the board. Each is a "concept" on its own, and considering them in opposition to one another served a few purposes. One, Kate will use some of these to write a character analysis next week that will illustrate a mostly good personality she'll create interacting with a not-so-good character. Two, this activity forced Kate to be very thoughtful as she was striving to think of words that were fitting starting with each letter. Ones she couldn't think of were found in a thesaurus. Then we did a character analysis and watched for more words to add to our list with about a ten minute segment of Despicable Me (she looked up despicable, too!) It is added to the board! Concepts and assumptions were reviewed as they came up naturally during the class and were pointed out.