Today, Hunter read two articles: "Climbing the World's Highest Mountains" and "Base Jumping." He answered many questions involving main idea, fact recall, inferences, word precision, and the author's approach.
Assignment
Read the new article and answer the reading comprehension questions.
We used the textbook to explore early settlements in the southwestern portion of North America.We read about the Puebloan Indians settling in the Four Corners region and then about them spreading through several other areas in the region.
We went to the computer lab and used the worldwide web to explore Bandelier National Monument, Taos Pueblo and Valle Grande, all in New Mexico and all places which I had the good fortune to visitl in my callow youth.
Assignment
None.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Hunter was attentive and asked several relevant questions during the session.
Hunter was to work on reading and spelling multi-syllable words that had closed, open and/or vowel-consonant-e words. The lesson did not take place due to a holiday program.
We read from the textbook about they Aztec peoples, their migration into central Mexico, their political structure, social system, their agriculture, their architecture and the development of what is now Mexico City. We then went to the computer lab for further research on the Maya/Aztec people of Mesoamerica.
Today, Hunter completed a descriptive paragraph, using sensory details. He used MLA format, and we discussed a few weaknesses: capitalization, apostrophes, their/there, commas for cities and states, verb tense shifts, and word choice (avoiding phrases like "flipped out"). We completed exercise 75 on page 90 of his grammar text.
I corrected the Ch. 5-4 and 5-5 HW. Hunter got all of the problems wrong. I explained the concepts he needs to do the HW again. He insisted he was ready for a chapter test. I made up an eleven question test from the Ch. Review in the text. Seeing this as a potential learning opportunity, I answered all of his questions.
Today, Hunter and I reviewed the Personal Narrative genre. He spent some time deciding on a story to write (which was not easy for him, due to a severe case of writer's block), and then wrote a summary of the story he chose. We read a student's sample narrative.
