Michael performs better than expected with coming up with a plan to solve a word problem. He occasionally struggles when reading it himself but understands when I read it to him. He sometimes still struggles sometimes with the math - especially remembering processes for solving problems.

We watched the end of the movie today and had a good conversation about it. Michael definitely had a better appreciation for the confrontation between Drummon and Brady after watching it, rather than reading it. I think his reading is going to be a big issue in the future. We then talked about the overall message of the play as it is reflected in the three main characters. The image of the statue of justice appears repeatedly in the film, so for homework, I had Michael write two paragraphs discussing the image it portrays.

We continued watching the movie today, but first had a conversation about any differences Michael may have noticed. As I was concerned, he really doesn't remember what we read that well, and even after watching the movie, had trouble differentiating between the characters.

Michael did very well writing on his own today.

We began watching the film of Inherit the Wind today. Michael seemed interested, I'm looking forward to our discussion once we finish it.

Michael did very well today constructing his body paragraphs. He needed a bit of work determining fact and opinion based statements.

Michael is doing well. He had less trouble with discounts and percents than he did with fractions, but he is having trouble grasping the basic concept (subtract the discount, add the tax).

Progressing through program

Michael has been working on doing different types of problems together. Today we worked on putting those concepts into word problems.