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For today's session, we worked on profiling one of the characters in "The Outsiders." Then we reviewed simplifying algebraic expressions. For homework, the student has to write an essay on the topic I gave him.

I guided the student on his PowerPoint on the Battle of Midway for his history class. He finished everything but a conclusion slide and final polishing.

Since we focused on critical reading humanities passages last session, we looked at natural sciences passages and literary fiction passages this session. We then looked at some SAT math.

In school, the student's Spanish class is learning about parts of the body. We reviewed this vocabulary (words like cara, brazo, pierna, nariz, etc.) and did some related worksheets. We completed a crossword puzzle where the clues were pictures of body parts, and we also translated some sentences.

The student and I began the session by working on the Pythagorean theorem for about 35 minutes. I had emailed her teacher earlier to find out what she is working on in class. She did well with this concept after completing 15 practice problems using the theorem. We talked about the different parts of the triangle and how to solve for area using the theorem. After working on this, we began to discuss her social studies class and what they are working on in her class. We went over the beginnings of Congress and how the different aspects of what was going on relates to the beginning of our nation. For the next session, I would like to work on writing more.

Today, the student completed her assignment on sets and we reviewed all of the concepts relating to that topic. We worked on the difference between set builder and roster notation and looked at the subtle differences that could be problematic on similar questions.