Jaydn completed the novel Where the Crawdads Sing in the last session. Today she watched a video of an interview with the author Delia Owens as she took the interviewer through the setting for the novel in the marsh land of North Carolina. She discussed how and why she created the protagonist, Kya. This interview brought the novel alive to Jaydn. Jaydn also learned the importance of researching an author's background before or while reading a novel. It brings tremendous insight into the characters and setting. We again discussed the term self-defense and Jaydn pretended she was a prosecutor and then a defending attorney. She took text from the novel and created a court room scenario for both defending and prosecuting the protagonist. I then introduced the next novel to Jaydn and ended the session.

Cabo reviewed the 20 SAT words being studied. He was then given 20 sentences to correctly apply the words. Cabo then read, discussed, and analyzed the next chapter of the new novel being studied. He wrote to describe the traits of each of the three main characters and made predictions based on their behavior.

Bella began the session with a review of SAT vocabulary and then she successfully completed an assessment. She then read and analyzed the next chapter of Where the Crawdads Sing. She then wrote to analyze the relationship of the mother and father using text-based support.

Jaydn completed the novel Where the Crawdads Sing. We discussed the character twist of the character of Kya. We then analyzed the term "self defense" and Jaydn wrote to convince her version of the term self defense, using the text for support in her essay.

Matthew took a test on chapters 1-25 during today's session.

Cabo began a new novel today, The Great Alone. He analyzed and discussed the first two chapters. He found text from the chapaters to use for support as he described the three main characters introduced. We discussed in detail one of the themes:the effects of war on indivuduals and the family. We concluded with a review of SAT vocabulary being studied.

Since Kate hadn't read any of the book, I told her a little about the book, but more about Salinger and his other works.

We read from " Where the Crawdad Sings", and discussed what we had read.

Bella continued reading, analyzing, and discussing Where the Crawdads Sing. She discussed the effect the character of Tate has on the life of Kya. She wrote to discuss the traits of Tate and how those traits change Kya's life. She reviewed her SAT vocabulary being studied.

Jaydn continued to read, analyze, and discuss Where the Crawdads Sing. She then wrote on the following topic: Who is the protagonist in the novel and why? Who is the main antagonist and why? How are interactions between these two characters responsible for conflict in the novel? How does the protagonist handle the conflicts caused by the antagonist?