Session Summary
Sunday, January 31, 2016
11am to 12:45pm
Topics covered:
I was really proud of Aaron. Despite being obviously tired and not as keen as I've known him to be about these sessions, he jumped into our work together like a trooper and did real well. We spent the first hour of the session discussing his ongoing assignment in English class of annotating chapters of the novel The Hobbit. We discussed what the assignment entails and we brainstormed ways to make the time-consuming and (in Aaron's words, "somewhat") difficult assignment better for him and less consuming of his time to do his homework. Aaron was receptive to my suggestion of using his phone to create and maintain an ongoing list of vocabulary of words he looks up. He'll be able to keep that ongoing list alphabetized and even broken down into sections, such as "Chapter One", "Chapter Two", etc. I also asked Aaron to show me the personal code by which he annotates, which was straightforward and easy to follow. I explained to Aaron that all these strategies were worthless if they weren't personally meaningful to him. He agreed. We spent the last forty-five minutes of the session continuing our handling of the Latin perfect tense active. Aaron struggled a little bit, more from his simply experiencing "brain farts" (again, his words) than anything else. Aaron wasn't as present and as focused as he typically is at one of these sessions, but still, again, he was a trooper and he handled the material well. Good job today, Aaron.
11am to 12:45pm
Topics covered:
- English
- Chapter Annotation
- Foreshadowing
- Direct and Indirect Characterization
- Parts of Plot
- Setting
- Conflict
- Figurative Language
- Vocabulary
- Chapter Annotation
- Latin
- Verbs in the Perfect System
- Perfect Indicative Active
- Verbs in the Perfect System
I was really proud of Aaron. Despite being obviously tired and not as keen as I've known him to be about these sessions, he jumped into our work together like a trooper and did real well. We spent the first hour of the session discussing his ongoing assignment in English class of annotating chapters of the novel The Hobbit. We discussed what the assignment entails and we brainstormed ways to make the time-consuming and (in Aaron's words, "somewhat") difficult assignment better for him and less consuming of his time to do his homework. Aaron was receptive to my suggestion of using his phone to create and maintain an ongoing list of vocabulary of words he looks up. He'll be able to keep that ongoing list alphabetized and even broken down into sections, such as "Chapter One", "Chapter Two", etc. I also asked Aaron to show me the personal code by which he annotates, which was straightforward and easy to follow. I explained to Aaron that all these strategies were worthless if they weren't personally meaningful to him. He agreed. We spent the last forty-five minutes of the session continuing our handling of the Latin perfect tense active. Aaron struggled a little bit, more from his simply experiencing "brain farts" (again, his words) than anything else. Aaron wasn't as present and as focused as he typically is at one of these sessions, but still, again, he was a trooper and he handled the material well. Good job today, Aaron.