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"Today, the student and I worked on the review materials provided by her teacher in preparation for the chapter exam on Monday. She has become quite fast at solving problems, which is great! We worked on some question types that are still giving her difficulty, such as implicit differentiation and the derivatives of exponential functions. I believe this improved her understanding and her ability to solve these problems has gotten a lot stronger. I am confident she will do well on Monday. I am available on Sunday if she needs to meet. "

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"We checked the work that the student had done in her vocabulary book, and we worked several exercises together. We read and discussed the story of Arachne's Web. Our conversation topic was the student's family."

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"Student A, Student B, and I reviewed the writing section today. I had them do a writing section, which we graded and reviewed. We discussed several grammar rules including subject/verb agreement, pronouns, parallelism, comparisons, and modifiers. We also discussed tips for writing an essay. "

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"First session with the students. I talked with student 1 about his writing experience and some of his assignments from the school year. We practiced summarizing a book chapter and a little bit of revision. Then we planned to work on some persuasive writing for next time. I had student 2 work on some sentence exercises using connecting words and creating compound sentences. Then we worked on brainstorming and writing a descriptive paragraph. "

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"The student and I started off by looking over the essay she wrote. She's starting in a really solid place (I would estimate a score of about an 8) and she could make a lot of improvement with mindful practice. As we continue with practice essays, we'll try to drive home the basic structure of a successful essay and then add on the "extras" like strong use of transition words, making the best use of the chosen examples etc. Next, we launched into our first full review of the rest of the writing section (correcting sentences and paragraphs and identifying sentence errors). After a fair amount of writing section practice, we started in on some vocabulary review. For next week, I've asked the student to do a few minutes of vocabulary review every day and to do the writing sections of the second practice test. "

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"We finished discussion of Orwell's Animal Farm, but didn't spend too much time on it because the student has already turned in the book to his teacher. He still doesn't seem to grasp the allegorical theme of the novel, and since his next book is Lowry's The Giver, also allegorical, we'll need to continue to work on this. We spent most of the session beginning our review for the high school placement test. His mother has purchased a workbook for him, so we'll be working with that. Today we focused on identifying synonyms in a multiple-choice format. He correctly answered all the problems we looked at, and he's good at eliminating options and other techniques for standardized tests. However, his vocabulary is a little weak. I will bring in some resources to help with Latin roots and prefixes, and to help improve his vocabulary skills in general."

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"The student and I worked ahead on his logarithm practice problems. He's doing a lot better since he started organizing his work and writing out all the steps. We worked today primarily on properties of logarithms, including the power, multiplication, and division rules. In future sessions, we're going to start working on tying everything together and problem-solving when he's not focused on one type of problem. "

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"Worked with the student and reviewed body parts, greetings, numbers, and animals. Played "Tic Tac Toad" using dice. Reviewed colors and days of the week."

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"The student and I went over lessons on how to write good, persuasive, essays. I gave her an assignment to email me so that I can record her progress. She also has a research paper assigned to her, of which we will review together, step by step. Next session is next Tuesday. She has an AP test coming up soon, and getting her writing skills up to par is the top priority. "

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"At the beginning of this session, I looked over the student's homework which covered simplifying rational expressions. All of the student's answers were worked out correctly, and whenever there was a mistake, it was just a simple error. We then moved onto the next section which covered multiplying and dividing rational expressions. This is one of my personal favorite topics in Algebra, so I was really excited to go over this with the student. She understood all of the material very well. She takes so much pride in her schoolwork that it makes working with her so easy and fun."

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"During our session, the student and I continued to focus on probability. We reviewed the differences between computation and permutation. We went over examples that required permutation calculation and some that required combination calculation. She was very proficient at making these calculations. She had no problem analyzing factorials, so we were able to make great progress in her homework with only a few questions remaining."

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