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"This week, I worked briefly with Student K on reviewing the principal parts of the verbs he's expected to know, and he showed me the 104 he made on his last quiz/ test. I worked with Student S on the vocabulary he's expected to know so far, asking him to produce the Latin forms for English words I provided, in the format of the quizzes he's taken and had some difficulty with. We also reviewed the noun and verb paradigms in written format. Then, I did a similar process of review with Student B, going through noun and verb vocabulary and then the paradigms."

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"In this session we went over the subjunctive verb paradigms the student just learned in school, and then used some goal post charts, which I showed her how to form in our last session, to practice conjugating subjunctive verbs. She understands the forms really well, and just needs to continue practicing conjugating out the paradigms. We then continued our review of indicative verbs and went through the third -io verb paradigm. We concluded our lesson with some more goal post exercises."

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"The student and I reviewed last week's vocabulary. He remembered 4/5 words from English to Latin and 5/5 words from Latin to English. Great work! Then, he took notes on how to conjugate these words in first person singular. We talked about how adding an "o" makes a word mean "I" in English. We reinforced the lesson with a game of tic-tac-toe in which he had to write an infinitive Latin word before playing his turn. I then wrote the first person of each word before playing mine. He is remembering the vocabulary and infinitive forms very well. We will continue working on first person next time. I will send a homework assignment on first person. Good work!"

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"We reviewed material from the student's homework assignments given last week. We focused on reviewing and correcting sentences on relative and demonstrative pronouns in Latin. He needs to memorize these forms and work harder on his vocabulary/ basic knowledge in general."

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"The student has an exam tomorrow, so we covered topics he was unsure about, including vocatives and neuter nouns. He is progressing very quickly and he's incredibly bright. That being said, I gave him a range of practice sentences, some being extremely difficult, and for the most part, he answered them nearly perfectly. The English to Latin translations are probably the most difficult, and he was still able to grasp the concept with just a minimal amount of aid from me."

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"For our first session, I tried to get a sense of what topics in Latin were most challenging for the student, and how he tended to approach Latin. It seems to me that he is a very bright student, but that his Latin class is moving a bit fast for him. While he is able to translate Latin fairly accurately, he still stumbles on some of the fundamentals. My plan, moving forward, will be go over more slowly and thoroughly some of these fundamentals, while also helping him with studying techniques. More specifically, we spent most of our time this week working through his translation. In every sentence, I asked him to identify the forms of verbs and nouns. When an issue came up, I took a step back to review the fundamentals. I also gave him some tips on how best to study for his daily quizzes. Overall, I was very impressed with him during our first session. I think with just a bit more review and practice, he'll be well on his way."

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"I had the student read a passage from a college Latin course to show her how her ability to read Latin has progressed over time. She managed to translate an entire page of Latin, with mainly vocabulary help, in about twenty minutes. From there, we reviewed the usage of the gerund and gerundive, since her class's book tends to use this construction more often than is usually encountered in Latin. Since the class's focus is primarily on cultural studies right now, I feel that such review can be beneficial while the Latin homework has slowed slightly."

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"The student and I began chapter 6 in his textbook. We read over the formation and use of the vocative case and the ablative 'place from which' construction. We then translated 3 or 4 sentences from the exercises in his textbook, parsing every word. He continues to do really well with the parsing and is up to speed on his declensions and verb conjugations. I suggested that he start writing down his translation of each word as he encounters them, instead of waiting to write down the translation of the entire sentence. I think this will help him hold the translations in his head and speed up the process. For next week, I believe we decided that he would continue to work on translations in his textbook, making notes to ask me about discrepancies between his renderings and the answer key in the book."

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"Our first step is to know, memorize, and have ingrained in us the declensions of nouns and adjectives (1st, 2nd, and 3rd primarily). Once we do this we can start working on verbs and memorization of vocabulary. Please bring any and all Latin materials to each tutoring session."

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"Another excellent session! The student did a great job, not only on the original material we covered together in the session but with the exercises I had asked him to do. We did more work with the future tense and reviewed nouns in the third declension, all the while reviewing adjectives ending in -us -a -um and ablative of means. Great job as usual!"

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"Today, the student and I strategized and created a study plan to prepare for his upcoming Latin final. We then focused exclusively on verb forms and paradigms, with the understanding that we will have a follow up session this coming Monday, the day before his exam."

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"The student and I started looking at his Roman author project coming up in January and talked about how ancient history and modern history have different expectations and conventions. We also talked about the two fathers of history, Herodotus and Thucydides, and how their different approaches shaped their work. The last thing we did on this project was put the student's author, Tacitus, in context with the other major Roman historians. He specifically writes history and not biography, for instance. As far as Latin goes, we continued to talk about reading Latin as Latin - finding the function of the various parts of sentences and understanding how they fit together before translating. We also reviewed tenses - how to identify them in Latin, what they show and how they work together in a sentence to show an author's meaning."

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