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"We studied for the student's Spanish exam by reviewing vocabulary and conjugations, and direct object pronouns. The student has a good grasp on most of the vocab."

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"The student completed her reading homework on "Bud, Not Buddy" by writing down 2 of her new rules and what she thought they meant/why she had them. We worked from her 7th grade geometry book on volumes and how to find the hypotenuse of a triangle. We also worked on Order of Operations and how they play out in the Distributive Property, etc. We ended the session by reading aloud from one of her books to work on an upcoming writing assignment. "

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"The student and I started by looking at some details about Egypt and filling in potential main idea sentences for them in a graphic organizer. After that, we did some reading about a rapper who wrote a book to teach kids that bullying doesn't pay. He did a nice job using text features and other strategies, like note-taking, to maintain his comprehension. He then used his notes to identify the three most important details of the article and its main idea."

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"During today's final session, the student and I reviewed the main strategies and key concepts in each of the SAT test subjects. We began by briefly covering the material in the writing section, starting with the essay. I gave him general advice on how to approach the essay portion, such as the importance of brainstorming and writing an outline before jumping into writing the body of the essay. We also discussed how using concrete, specific details engages the reader more than the use of abstract and general statements. We also looked at the three types of English multiple-choice question, along with examples and practice questions. He said he felt most confident about the English section, and he performed well on the practice questions. We then spent the remainder of the session reviewing important strategies for the math and reading subject areas as well as overall test-taking strategies, such as the importance of pacing, using process of elimination, and skipping hard questions to return to them later. He said he felt better prepared for the test due to our sessions, and his performance on the math and reading section especially showed a marked improvement."

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"The student got a 95% on his Module One test, which is excellent! He and I worked through two sections of his precalculus course today. In the first one, on polynomials of higher degree, we talked about the end behavior of polynomials, the binomial expansion using Pascal's triangle, the intermediate value theorem and how it can be used to prove the existence of zeroes of functions, and the extrema theorem. In the second unit on real zeroes of polynomials, we used both polynomial long division and synthetic division to explore different roots and zeros of higher degree polynomials. The student seemed to be absorbing the material well; he still has a good grounding in this from his advanced algebra II class, and I am glad he is remembering as much material from there as he is. He seemed a little more confident this evening, which was wonderful."

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"During this session we went over electron configuration questions focusing on the trends of the lanthanoids and actinoids. We also did a few some on matrices/Cramer's rule. Overall this session went well. "

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"Today the student and I reviewed for her upcoming biology final. We did this by going over old exams and discussing the answers, particularly those that she did not remember or which she got wrong the first time through. We made good progress on all of these, though she agreed to ask her teacher tomorrow about biomass and energy pyramids, and how to draw them. We made it up to the most recent of her exams (and, arguably the hardest/ worst one) so that is where we will continue from on Monday."

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"For this session, we explicitly went over how to write a complex-split thesis statement for an APUSH essay, and we went over the documents for the DBQ prompt that she will be writing on tomorrow in class. We also discussed different AP classes that she could take next year and how they are formatted. "

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"The student and I started with more flashcards, which she was doing well on, but I also noticed that she was relying very heavily on the helper facts she has on some of the cards, so I had her practice skip counting for all of the number sets. I think it will help so that she is not always adding in her head when she multiplies. I also had her work on some more worksheets with fact families and mystery numbers."

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"We continued learning different types of application problems for systems of equations, including interest, mixtures and solutions, and d=rt. The student did a good job writing equations and setting them up to solve using substitution or elimination."

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"I used this tutoring session to review the concepts presented last session. The first thing we did was go over and correct problems on a teacher-made worksheet that she completed on multiplying fractions. She answered most of the problems correctly, but forgot to write the answer in its simplest form on two of the problems. She corrected that, and will watch out for that on future problems. We also reviewed using cross multiplying to solve the problems. I also used the lesson to review comparing fractions and multiplication facts. The student seems to try very hard during the lessons and seems to demonstrate an understanding of the concepts reviewed."

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"The student and I worked on math and science this session. Math was on making box and whisker plots and understanding how they can be helpful in understanding a data set. He has a quiz coming up in science, so we worked to make sense of the terms and concepts related to tides that will be included on the quiz. We also talked about how to best use his study time on days when I do not see him. "

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