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"We reviewed for the student's final exam in English one last time, mostly using his study guides. We covered everything."

"In my first session with the student I wanted to get a feel for where she was at with her writing, reading and grammar, and see what she and her mother want to get out of tutoring. I went through worksheets and outlines from her English class, as well as read some of her papers and short assignments. We talked about what was most difficult for her this year in English, and where she feels she is strongest. She definitely has a wonderful imagination, and has no problem coherently and cohesively expressing her ideas and interests to me. She is engaging and clearly very bright. Her writing samples that I read had strong word choice and grammar and were at or above most 7th grade writing standards. Her school is very competitive and focused on preparing their students for advanced learning, which is wonderful, but I think it has given her some anxiety about her writing skill level. They are learning literary terms that are verbatim what is tested on the AP Composition test. What we will focus on the most is preparing her to be able to successfully write both long and short in-class responses (with no prewriting), as well as how to outline and organize longer assignments. They spent time this year working on the mechanics of writing- thesis, introduction, transitions, etc. Her comprehension is great and her reading level is much higher than her grade. We discussed her different interests and favorite authors and genres, so as to give me some ideas for writing projects she could work on that would be engaging to her. I asked her to brainstorm/look up some specific books that she wants to read so I could potentially assign some writing to go in tandem with them (I will call her before our next meeting). "

"Today the student did more comma exercises and a writing prompt, and reread a story which she found confusing, so that she can be prepared to complete a writing prompt on it tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'll have her do another comma exercise as well as that writing prompt. I expect that will take up almost all of our time together, but if we have time we will also work on some spelling."