Max had communicated with his Spanish/Homeroom teacher on his own prior to our meeting. We looked at his communication and developed it a little further to make it complete.

We then watched a video on the child labor that helped make the industrial revolution in the U.K. possible.

The video was very informative and took the remainder of the class.

Max and I messaged his Spanish teacher. We checked on his History assignments and messaged the teacher for this class as well.

We worked on Max's Spanish vocabulary. We also made some physical notecards for his Spanish vocabulary and used the notecards for study.

Max and I checked and found no work posted from his school in History or Geography.

We discussed some connections between geography, history, and life including the location of Spain, Northern Africa and how their histories, languages, and cultures have intertwined. We also discussed how Spain's armada during imperialism has impacted world history.

We then transitioned to WWI and the treaty that brought it to a halt. We discussed the Roaring 20's in America. The impact of financial instruments such as War Bonds, Stocks, and Investing on Margin and how these contributed to the Great Depression.

Business vocabulary expansion (K)... Discussions about going back to New York (K.), London: difference of lifestyle in the US and Europe... Discussions of various topics as our lessons come to a conclusion for some period of time... Great progress for both! Absolute pleasure teaching these amazing students! Will miss them so much!

Business aspects discussion with K. using new words...
Max's creative story about surfing...
Discussion about Russian movies "Svetl'achok", that led to discussion about radiation, bullying, friendship, etc...

New creative story (M.)...
Word game...
Business vocabulary for the projects negotiations (K)...
Discussions about COVID, vaccination (K)... Discussions of various subjects...

Business vocabulary (K.), discussions about war movies, discussion about the book: George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London (K)...
Grammar (K): difference in Russian between here and there (place and destination)...
New words from the book (M), and use in sentences...
Discussions on various subjects between K and M...

We continued to work on amplifying Max's assessment responses to the poetry questions by adding quotes and textual support. Max did well locating within the poem further specific language to support his topic sentences. We then began the next assignment from his London school requiring an analysis of another scene from Act I of Macbeth. We first studied 17th Century gender roles and with that foundation studied Lady Macbeth's speech where she seeks to be "unsexed" so as to have the ambition and cruelty necessary to make Macbeth king . We further examined Shakespeare's metaphorical language analogizing Macbeth's kind nature as "the milk of human kindness " which Lady Macbeth feels she must squeeze from him . We then addressed a few short answer questions from the assignment . Today was Max's last day of class at Batt. I enjoyed having Max as a student these past few weeks.

Goals: Finish 4 Panel Project

In this session we listened to several new genres combining two uncommon types of music together to make a new style of music.