Ayden completed a career cluster inventory and major interest inventory. We discussed his results and read about jobs of interest in each domain and noted them on a reflection activity.
Vocabulary - 2 rounds 17/20 words. Informed him of a formal assessment coming up with January words (we took a break from them to finish Ender's Game).
Read about Defender personality (Ayden's result) on 16 personalities.com and discussed how similar/different he felt from the descriptions. He wrote his responses in a doc.
Ayden completed the https://www.16personalities.com/ and read each question aloud with fluency and clear comprehension of each question.
Mini-lesson: concept mapping - why? how to do it? Which prepared us for writing.
Ayden read an article, "Basics of Identity" by Shahram Heshmat Ph.D. aloud. We talked about vocabulary words from the reading: misrepresent, formation, cognitive, internalize, fulfilling. Next, we discussed the main points of the article. After this, Ayden completed the last of his brainstorms about his own identity.
Ayden and I finished a discussion about the movie versus the book.
Introduced the concept of citation, Ayden recalled his prior knowledge. He supported his opinions on the movie with quotes from the book (looked through book to locate). Using a graphic organizer, Ayden completed a reflection on Ender's Game and analyzed key differences. He backed up his analysis with citations and quotations from the book.
