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"The student and I reviewed chemistry involving protecting groups, imine formation, and some reduction and oxidation. The session went very smoothly, and the student exhibited a strong understanding of the concept material. These problems were worked out over the session, and we are planning on an additional session tomorrow evening to address any additional questions."

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"Today, we went over the section on money. After this review, we had a discussion about the difference between borrowing and lending money. It was difficult for the students to differentiate, so we did a class demonstration, and it seemed to help the students understand better. After this, I had the students do an activity in their workbook, which took up the remainder of the class. I assigned homework. Today was a good session, and we will continue this section next class. "

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"We worked on reading and pronunciation. The student read an article about Venezuela from an online newspaper, and we identified words and sounds he had trouble pronouncing. This was designed to work toward his ultimate goal of making presentations clearly and effectively. "

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"We covered general algebra concepts, factoring, finding zeros, and foiling and multiplying factors with tables. The student recently had an exam and felt she didn't do well and was a bit disheartened. She actually was fairly competent at the material but had minor issues with multiplication/addition and combining like terms. She seemed to grasp the concepts well and learn new skills quickly. We didn't get to refine her skills much in the time we had (we mostly looked at old problems), but I feel we did find the source of her troubles and give her an area to focus on. We hopefully rebuilt some confidence after seeing that she did most of the test problems correctly, but her stumbling was heavily punished by the grading scale. I feel like if she focuses on this one particular problem (order of operations/combining terms/multiplication) for a session or two, she'll be in perfect shape to get top marks in the rest of her class."

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"Our first session went very well. We did an overall refresher on various Calc I and II concepts, reviewing what the student remembered from his previous time taking the course. He seems to have a very good handle on a lot of the types of problems we went over, so I'm feeling pretty confident that he's going to get the grade he's looking for this semester. We identified a few areas that are a little more difficult such as trig identities and sequences and series, so we'll definitely cover those in-depth as he gets to those lessons in class."

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"The student and I continued to work on her memorized story. Her memory is great, and there are only a few places where the forms are giving her trouble. This is going to be our baseline to change tenses and work on stories in multiple time periods. Her free practice was also well done. I had her go through the story a few times working on the tenses she wanted to use with a particular focus on past. We will keep at it. It slowed her down a little bit, but nothing overly noticeable. In a few places, she was not confident in the past tense forms. We wrote those down, and I had her keep retelling with this focus in mind. Her homework is to finish memorizing the story and come up again with a story that is details heavy. "

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"Today's session was to analyze limits when the variable tends to infinity. The student, at first, felt that working with infinity numbers is something strange. I explained him that infinity means that we are going to increase the value of the variable to greater numbers each time we choose a value to evaluate. I did some exercises, step by step, being clear and stopping when I noticed he was getting confused. After these problems, he did some others by himself and solved them right. I think now he's understood the concept of limit of a function."

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"We completed the practice test we started last time, finishing two Reading passages, two Writing passages, and a Math (calculator) section. The student does extremely well with the non-fiction Reading passages, so we will focus on classical/literature passages next time, since she needs more work with those. She is also performing quite well on the Writing section, so we will reduce the number of Writing passages we do each time. We worked our way through some very difficult math problems today, and even derived from geometrical formulas and relationships from scratch! We will focus more on these more difficult calculator problems in later sessions."

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"We covered the conformations of acyclic and cyclic alkanes. We went through the construction of Newman projection for the acyclic alkanes. The conformations of ethane, propane, and butane were discussed. The graph of the potential energy versus bond rotation for ethane, propane, and butane was covered for (eclipsed, staggered/anti, and gauche conformers). We also covered the method for drawing cyclohexane and the isomers of disubstituted cyclohexane. "

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"We covered the summer packet that the student had been assigned. She was extremely prepared, and seemed only to struggle with small mistakes on word problems. She maintained a positive attitude and has plenty more of the packet to last the summer."

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"Yesterday the student and I reviewed a few sets of words from the sight word lists, and began reading Roald Dahl's short story "Esio Trot." She seems to do well when she is feeling more confident. We wrapped things up by playing the sight word version of "Uno," which really let her skills shine. She will continue to work on incorporating what she already knows into reading fluently."

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