Today Charlie reviewed the Standards of Critical Thinking. He needed help to list them. He looked up definitions and crunched them into short more memorable phrases, and then wrote them in his notebook again. After this, he read the introductory paragraph to an article on where all the plastic goes that we throw out or recycle. He marked the "hook" and "thesis statement." We then watched a five minute documentary showing where all the plastic accumulates in the Pacific Ocean, and the wildlife being harmed by it. The article said that a few decades from now, the plastic in the ocean will weigh more than all the fish in it. We used critical thinking to try to come up with any possible solutions, as well as, thinking through what Charlie himself will do differently so that he is "part of the solution, not the pollution" as the video said. For the last ten minutes, we watched more of The Lone Ranger movie, stopping about six times to identify critical thinking standards.