Chris and I co-read a short story by Roald Dahl, "Lamb to the Slaughter." Chris remembered the author from our time together years ago; we read his books "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox." This short story is decidedly darker! As we read, we paused to discuss vocabulary and figurative language, as well as to summarize and make predictions. Chris read the story well and made insightful comments.

Today, we worked on writing a proper paragraph, which includes a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a concluding sentence. Elon Musk famously sent an email to federal employees this week, directly them to write five things that they had accomplished in the past week. I thought this would be a provocative writing prompt: write a paragraph describing five things that you have accomplished at the Batt School in the last week. Christopher brainstormed, and then wrote his paragraph. With my support, he edited the paragraph as follows: indenting the first sentence, adding proper punctuation, spacing. While all of his sentences were technically correct, they lacked complexity. We discussed varying sentence structure to make writing more interesting for the reader. We will continue to work on on this skill.

Chris and I co-read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. Chris practiced annotating the text, a good strategy for note-taking that is a common requirement in high school and college. I modeled reading comprehension strategies, pausing to summarize what we had read and make predictions. To conclude, we discussed the relevance of the story in today's political climate.

Chris and I co-read a short story by Shirley Jackson, "Charles." We paused to summarize, ask questions and make predictions. Chris ready very well. Chris answered the reading comprehension questions verbally; I told him that was for our first session only and that he will be writing for the rest of our sessions. He answered most questions very well, but did struggle at times to make inferences. We will practice that skill.

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We discussed the subject of the book, 'All the President's Men.' Kaitlin mentioned she might use the time to study or do test prep and it was approved by her mom and administration.

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Introduction to "All the President's Men" novel. Explanation of Nixon Watergate scandal.

We first read a non-fiction reading comprehension passage about the writer's connection to a famous historical event involving Abraham Lincoln. Colson then answered reading comprehension questions on the passage's main idea, and textual evidence that supported the writer's purpose. He generally did well and where he encountered difficulty was able to narrow down the answer to two choices, one of which was in fact correct. We then worked on writing a summary of the passage again focusing on breaking down ideas into separate sentences, avoiding over generalization, and using connecting phrases or words where applicable.

During today's session we worked on reading comprehension by studying a passage and addressing "main idea" and evidence comprehension questions. To assist Colson I read the passage(sports related) aloud and pointed out how to use the passage's footnotes to locate vocabulary definitions . Colson then began to answer the comprehension questions. Where he encountered difficulty ,I provided instruction on how to carefully read the questions, which is just as critical as a close reading of the passage. We will complete the exercise in tomorrow's enrichment class after Colson has the opportunity to study the questions more closely.