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This session focused exclusively on two areas. The first part of the session was spent helping the student develop his religion essay. I offered suggestions about making the essay stronger and provided input on revisions and corrections. The student then uploaded his corrected essay to his school website. Then we reviewed the next section of his reading and answered questions pertaining to the book. The student continued to ask questions during this portion of the session to get clarification about characters and plot themes.

Student read 57 pages of the Yearling this week. He was able to summarize the text which was great. He needs to have the book finished by next week so has quite a bit of reading ahead of him. We went over again the benefits of summarizing the text in his own words after each paragraph and chapter. He is trying to read to "get it done" so I encouraged him to read for what he is trying to learn rather than just to get it done. I also suggested that due to the complex nature of the writing, he get the audiobook. We also started some idea maps for the three topics he needs to focus on while reading so that he can make notes of examples as he reads.

Went through unit four in textbook. Student wrote four passages regarding: favorite music, favorite trip, a new type of food he tried, current event. I corrected his grammar (word choice, punctuation, spelling, tense, etc.) mistakes.

The student is reading Romeo and Juliet. We went through act 3 scene 1 line by line, translating Elizabethan English into modern American English. He seemed more comfortable with the scene after doing so and was subsequently able to complete homework questions with very little assistance.

Today, we finished the student's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde comparison paper. All it needed was transitions, a more flushed out conclusion, some minor editing and formatting details. She is often shy about writing in front of me, so often I usually have to work very hard to have her phrase most of the sentences. Once she writes them, they are usually fine. Overall, I think her paper was a success, and hopefully she will get a good grade on it.

The student and I worked on an English assignment again. She was continuing to work on the poetry assignment and learning how to extract quotes from secondary sources and tying them with the primary source. I guided her as she practiced summarizing and paraphrasing the main ideas of the article.