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The student and I continued to review information for her upcoming final exam in physiology. The subject material we covered included growth hormone and its effects, insulin-like growth factor and its effects, and thyroid hormones. We will meet again a few more times before the exam to review endocrine and reproductive physiology.

In this session we covered the outline that I made for Chapter 3 of the physiology text, answered the student's questions on same, and I submitted many questions for her to review online. For our next session we will review the outline I will prepare on the rest of Chapter 3 and the assigned portion of Chapter 4 and go over the answers for the questions for Unit 2 from her teacher. Finally, we will review and answer any questions she may have on the material for her test Wednesday.

In this session we went over what we learned last time to make sure the student has a good understanding of it, we also went over the questions I gave her. Then we covered the next part of skeletal muscle contraction by talking about sliding filament theory and excitation-contraction coupling, we also discussed source of energy for skeletal muscles.

Today we covered the bones, muscles and joints. We covered bone tissue and the skeletal system, such as the functions of the skeletal system, bone classification, bone structure, bone formation and development and fractures. We also covered classification of joints, fibrous joints, cartilaginous joints and synovial joints. Then we covered the interaction of skeletal muscles and their lever systems, naming skeletal muscles, agonists, antagonists, synergists and fixators. We also went over a practice test on integument, bones, joints, and muscles and the student did very well on it. He needs more practice with endochondral and intramembranous ossification. I will be emailing practice questions to him and this session was successful.

I met with the student and discussed her standing in the class. She got a 56 on her first exam. Her next exam is Friday over chapters 6, 9, and 12 - electrotonic potential - muscle - cardiovascular. We started going over the information provided by her professor for chapter 6 and I asked her to finish watching those lectures and make notes. She is also going to watch 2 videos related to sodium potassium atpases and electrotonic potential that are available online. When I got home I emailed her father 3 sets of study questions one for each chapter and hopefully he forwarded that to her so that she can do some practice questions before we meet today. We are meeting at 4:30 today to discuss how she feels about the study plan we are trying out for chapter 6 and to make a study plan for the rest of the week.

We went over various concepts in electricity and optics to prepare for a final exam. We discussed topics like frequency, wavelength, index of refraction, and electric potential. We also worked on problems related to Snell's law and finding the voltage or current for resistors in series and parallel. The student is showing more confidence about the material and has shown improvement on exams.