We reviewed last evening's homework briefly and spent the rest of the session working through a large coordinate geometry problem that incorporated several of the concepts and definitions we've encountered over the past several weeks.

Prior to administering the Chapter 6 quiz, I gave Will an opportunity to ask questions, as is my customary practice. His questions were pointed and intelligent. In fact, two of the three quiz questions dealt with subjects he raised! We had a healthy discussion, reviewing the material in the chapter, which ran significantly longer than such discussions normally do--a good thing, in my view. The quiz was then administered. This took almost all the remaining session time. At the end, I briefly summarized the upcoming topics in Chapter 7.

We explored a number of problems from the text in which triangles in which their sides and their respective midpoints were involved.

* Review.
* Grammar: Demonstrative 3.
* Conjugation: Present 2.
* Reading: Insolite - England.

Today we completed discussion of Chapter 6, including the Federalist Party's program and the emergence of the Republic Party in opposition, the Jay Treaty with Britain, the Pinckney Treaty with Spain, George Washington's warning about foreign entanglements, the bitter election of 1796 won by John Adams, the Quasi-War with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the election of 1800 (in which Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in electoral votes, leaving the election in the hands of the "lame duck" Congress), and the so-called midnight appointments of Federalists to judicial posts before Adams left office.

We spent the first 15 minutes going over sat night's homework. We worked some follow-up problems and then spent the rest of the session discussing the perpendicular bisector, its converse as well as the angle bisector and its converse. We used the white bard extensively for illustrations.

Continue working on 16th note rhythms
Continue working on developing the basic swing beat
First snare drum comping exercise over the basic swing beat
Free jam to apply techniques
Will did great and was able to play some of the sixteenth note exercises that had been giving him some trouble. He also was able to play the swing back beat which had also been challenging for him. Great progress today!

Continue working on 16th note rhythms.
Continue working on developing the basic swing beat - add bass drum and snare drum
Will did a great job and is showing a lot of interest in jazz drumming. He has a really good, natural feel to his swing patterns. He is showing improvement in working on the 16th note rhythms as well.

Continue 16th note rhythms
Continue swing beat and coordination exercises

Continue working on 16th note rhythms
Basic swing beat and coordination exercises.
Free play to apply learned concepts and techniques.