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The student and I continued doing verbal prep for the SSAT this evening, focusing in particular on synonyms involving verbs, as well as passages of greater general difficulty (in preparation for the actual test).

Today, we applied the student's new material on poetry. We read a poem by Robert Frost, and I asked him questions about it based on the new concepts he's learning in ELA. The poem was challenging--high-school level--but he was able to answer the questions fairly well. We then reviewed economic terminology for 10 minutes because he has a social studies test on Friday.

I taught the student about geometry transformations and how to notate them in (x,y) form, and we reviewed the homework that he had to do for his class. I went over her math homework, but she already had a good grasp on it.

Today, the student reviewed her multiplication facts 1 through 5, and then we started going over the 6s. I showed her how many of the 6s she already knew, and that she really only had to work on four. She is going to keep reviewing her multiplication cards daily. Super job!! We also reviewed counting and adding money. We then moved on to the next chapter in the story book we are reading together. We will continue with chapter 12 in our next session. She is focused and is showing a lot of growth and maturity. She is attentive and eager to learn.

Today, we went over LR questions the student had missed, as well as worked through some new ones. We discussed the steps of approaching LR questions, including how to correctly spot the conclusion-- the thing the author is trying to convince us of.

We finished the ACT science test and started the ACT English test. The student did well with verb voice, mood, and tense. I talked about strategy for the English test at the beginning of the session, but then mostly focused on reviewing grammar. I sent the student quizzes on the material we covered today.