I met with Woo-Joo yesterday and had planned on finally reviewing the essay I had assigned to him the previous week so that I could gauge more specific essay writing needs. I was disappointed to find out that he had not finished it, I told him to make sure to have it complete by next week. We then spoke about the Hobbit for a little bit and I gave him a character chart and a map of Middle Earth so that he could follow the characters and locations a little better. I was going to resort to my back up lesson, a fun TED talk followed by writing a response to the speaker. He had brought some of his school work however. He had to complete an assignment concerning vocabulary for his social studies class. Our tutoring lesson then became one concerning study skills, memorization and word composition. So we began by working on some study cards for his exam. I then explained to him the concept of memes for memorization so we came up with a couple for the more difficult words. And then I explained to him about prefixes and suffixes and different compositions words can take having been derived from other words. It was not a substantial lesson and I had really hoped that we could have worked on his essay but at least I helped him with something in the immediate future.
Afterwards his mother, Mii, and Woojoo invited me to lunch.
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