Discussing different topics, using new words in Russian for Max and Katia: weather, New York, history, etc.
Questions and answers between Max and Katia...
Fairy Tale continuation...
Great progress!
Max was asked to present to me his current understanding of WW1. He did a good job. I assisted him by guiding his discussion and by filling in details that he was unable to produce.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
30
Lesson Comments
Max was supposed to meet with me at 2:30 for an hour but was switched to 1:30 for a half-hour in its place.
As Max indicated he was interested in using today's session as a creative writing class, we discussed various forms of creative writing: short story, fantasy, poetry, novels. I further placed on the board the concept of Freytag's pyramid in order to identify the parts of a short story.We focused on the need for a conflict, a dramatic climax, and a resolution. After discussing some story lines, Max decided he wanted to write a story about walking his dog on the beach. He spent the rest of the session working on his story. At the end of class , we looked over his draft and talked about ways to add dramatic conflict to the tale.
Goals:
Complete Figure Drawing Exercise #1.
- Three timed exercises, starting with a 15 second gesture and ending with a 2-5 minute gesture...
-Focus on proportions and spine curve to create movement...
Finish sketching 4 Panel Drawing
-Finish bottom cartoons and begin to add color...
-Focus on creating characters from imagination...
Assignment
4 Panel Project & Figure Drawing Exercise #1
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Max loves art. I'm trying to get him to sway away from using other people's art as reference but it is super natural to do when you're first learning. I started working on drawing the figure with him which I think will help build his confidence and allow him to create his own drawings.
Lesson 5 The Cycling of Earth’s Materials – Max learned what happens to rocks at Earth’s surface. Then he learned that sediment deposited in water often forms layers in the beds of rivers, lakes, and oceans. Over time these layers can be preserved in sedimentary rocks. Next he learned that lithification is the process through which sediment turns into rock. Then he learned that cementation is the process by which minerals dissolved in surrounding water crystallize between grains of sediment such as quartz, calcite, and clay.
Assignment: Add pictures and notes on the rock cycle to science notebook
We discussed Macbeth as an ambitious king who has become a serial killer. We outlined Macbeth's killing spree on the board and further added to our list of the supernatural the reappearance of the witches in Act IV. We then reviewed the text and Max identified the witches' three additional prophesies . I pointed out some of the more known lines within this scene such as Macbeth shall not be vanquished until"Birnam Wood (shall come )to Dunsinane". We then reviewed the reappearance of the theme of "manliness" in McDuff's response to the murder of his wife and children,. Last, we read the first two scenes of Act V. Homework-complete reading abridged version of Act V.
