Olivia worked on revising her essay on CIDN.

I substituted for Vlad’s English teacher. Vlad read a portion of his text “Hiroshima”.

We spent the period looking into the history of Chernobyl and the unprecedented nuclear accident that happened there in 1986. Vlad is very excited about the impending Chernobyl movie coming out soon on HBO. There are disturbing and frightening parallels between the accident at Chernobyl and the events Vlad is reading about in the book, "Hiroshima."

Vlad completed the Social Science portion of the Stanford Achievement Test. He then moved on to and completed the Spelling portion.

Taylor worked on her Stanford testing.

Vlad took the Stanford test in English and I proctored.

Vlad spent today's class working on the Stanford Achievement Test. I gave him the option to begin with the English portions or the Social Science portion of the test. He chose to begin with the Social Studies portion of the test. It was also explained to Vlad that he has unlimited time to complete the test. Vlad completed 9 questions - about 1/2 way through the Social Science section.

We worked for two hours today on final edits for Vlad's presentation for Mr. Tisi's group tomorrow. Once we smoothed out the text, we searched for visuals to enhance Vlad's accompanying PowerPoint presentation. Vlad then practiced reading aloud his revised speech. He just needs to add a mention of his concern about the environment to his "Vlad Talk" to accompany his slides about pollution and the Pacific Trash Heap. Vlad feels comfortable and confident about this public speaking engagement. He will be fantastic, "wow" and impress this audience tomorrow!

I critiqued a speech Vlad is to make next week.

I subbed for Taylor's English teacher from 9 to 10. Taylor was working on her English assignment, I assisted as needed.