It was a pleasure meeting Rowan. He remained attentive and focused throughout our first session. He has an awareness about his tendency to lose focus and he seemed very motivated to stay on track. He told me repeatedly that he wanted to be assigned plenty of homework, which shows a wonderful willingness to work. We began our session by looking at some basic grammar topics. We discussed verb/noun agreement, pronoun/noun agreement, and prepositional phrases. He has a good sense of proper grammar, but reviewing these rules allows him to have a firmer grasp on the material. I'm also having Rowan keep notes during our sessions so that he can go back and review what we've covered on his own time. We ended our session by looking at one humanities reading passage. We reviewed that he must read for the Main Idea and that he must remain active as he reads. I told him that he should behave like a detective as he reads: he should look closely for clues and answers in the text. He responded well to this. I look forward to working with Rowan in the days ahead.