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"The student and I began our session today with a discussion of is, ea, id. To challenge him, I had him compose three sentences using is, ea, id. He did very well on this, and from there we moved on to translation from his book. In his translation passage, reflexive pronouns and some of the nuances of demonstratives came up. I gave him a brief introduction to these topics that I hope will help him in the weeks to come. To end our session, I tried to check in with him about how he's feeling about his Latin class. He told me that he was feeling good."

"We had a terrific session today! The student has her Latin midterm coming up, so she and I reviewed the topics the midterm will cover and spent this session and will spend our next session reviewing those topics. Today, we reviewed infinitives, indirect statements, and comparison of adjectives. "

"The student's completed handouts looked pretty good; her charts were almost perfect, although she had more trouble with translating the verbs. Therefore, we focused on these translations, emphasizing how to translate the different tenses and the key idea that these verbs look passive, but are actually active. This week, we also reviewed other grammatical concepts from her chapter, particularly participles. She gets the concept (they are verbal adjectives), but is having trouble keeping all the forms straight. I'll send a worksheet on the different tenses within the next day that should help with that. I am also sending her a list of deponent verbs. I think it would be helpful to make flashcards of these verbs so that she can keep them straight from "normal verbs" that are in the passive voice. "