In this activity, Katya was going to work on her assignment solving systems by substitution.

Absent - no response to calls or messages sent via Teams.

The plan was for Katya to tell me which subway artist she chose for 3rd place, which for 2nd place, and which for 1st place. Then Katya was to tell me what she saw as the strengths in the 2nd place winner and in the 1st place winner. Next, the plan was for me to cover (as an overview) these basic items required of her research paper: a thesis statement; an introductory paragraph; a prioritized list of causes; a discussion of a "tipping point"; transitions; introductions to all block quotes, citing source and credentials; the format of a block quote; parts 1, 2, and 3 of "the Sandwich"; a concluding paragraph; a provocative title; the format of the first page.

Katya and I met (by phone) for the first time. She did get the subway art project I sent her. We went through the assignment which Katya agreed could be fun: She is to look at the 10 paintings I sent her, and as an art critic she is to choose the 3rd place winner, the 2nd place winner, and the 1st place winner. After that, Katya is to tell me about the strengths of the 2nd place painting and the strengths of the 1st place painting. Katya clarified for me that she is going to the New School in Manhattan to study psychology, not art and design. Her interest is in human behavior. That got me thinking: Would she like to research "divorce," as an example of human behavior: both the causes of divorce and the effects of divorce. Katya seemed to really like the project, and she agreed that doing a research paper would be a good idea, to find out what psychologists are saying and what the controversies are. In addition, we talked about not just having a list of causes and a list of effects but having each list prioritized: primary causes, root causes, circumstantial or secondary causes. That puts the causes into a perespective. In addition, I introduced Katya to the term "tipping point." She got the concept. We talked about using the term when discussing divorce scenarios. We turned next to some of the mechanics of a research paper: the importance of having a provocative title; the organization of an introductory paragraph; block quoting; the format of a Works Cited page. We ended by talking about using Google docs so we could work on her research paper together as she is writing and editing her paper. The plan is for Katya to speak to Nicole about having two sessions: one on Friday at 10 and a second hour on Tuesday or Thursday.

In this activity, Katya continued working on systems using the elimination method.

Our focus today was on Imperialism. Katya was introduced to the concept, the late 19th/early 20th century Age of Imperialism, during which countries were imperialist and in which countries were imperialized. We examined a classic political cartoon from this era that illustrates European nations carving up China and China's difficulty from preventing this. We will resume our look at imperialism tomorrow. Why did some Europeans and Americans think imperialism was just? And...what were/are the many injustices regarding imperialism?

In this activity, Katya was going to solve linear systems using the elimination method.

In this activity, we were gioing to solve systems by graphing.

Absent. Katya and I should be in class right now, from 1:30 - 2:30pm. After my 12:30pm class, I saw this message from Katya that she sent to me at 1:07pm: "hey bari i might not make it to class im really tired and i dont want to fall asleep on you if you need to still call in to show that we did have class thats okay with me. i dont know why im so tired. im so sorry"

Upon seeing the above message when our class was to start, I responded, "Oh No! I am here and available if you now have the energy, Katya!" Unfortunately, Katya did not respond.

In this session, Katya was not available but did complete her assignment.