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The students were both present for this meeting. Student 1 had homework in Math and Student 2 had homework in Spanish. We reviewed the upcoming year, and spent time making sure they are organized and ready to go. The two quizzed one another on elements and compounds for an upcoming Chemistry quiz.

The student has been working on his planner and keeping track of important dates and assignments. It has started to be very helpful and he just needs to keep working to make writing down assignments a good habit. The Hamlet assignment went well, breaking it up into chunks really made the work easier to manage and he was able to get very creative with the design of the project using tea to age the paper which we'd talked about last time. It sounds like he did very well with that assignment. We talked a little about public speaking techniques, note taking, and how to parse the next English assignment, a character study of Canterbury Tales.

For homework, the student only had her science and vocabulary words. We started with science, where the assignment was to answer four questions and then create notecards for eight terms. The student created the notecards, and I explained the definitions when necessary. By the end of the night, the student learned 23 new words!

I enjoyed getting to know both students further. Student A was very on top of his game this afternoon. He was focused and seemed more self motivated than in our previous session. Student E was enthused about an assignment that required him to write and decorate a letter to a 9/11 first responder, and did a lovely job. He and I also worked together on studying for a Social Studies exam, and I suggested several new tactics that he should try also when studying alone.

This was my first session with the student. We began working through his English book on the chapter with gerunds and participles and worked through the examples in the book. I assigned a set of examples and vocabulary for him to practice until our session on Friday.

The students worked on a Reading phonics program, focusing on /o/ sounds and sentence building. Then, they worked on reading comprehension. Student 1 read about killer bees and Student 2 read about scuba diving. They both also watched videos on their topic and answered comprehension questions. Then, they worked on Math online. They worked on number senses.