Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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I tutored Jun for the third time on Thursday.  His mom cancelled our session the prior week due to Halloween, which I’m sure Jun enjoyed very much!  I was welcomed once again by snacks, and this time his mom gave me a little, traditional Korean drum charm.  Jun and I worked on science because he needs improvement in that subject.  Just like last time, he read the text to me, and I checked for comprehension by demonstrating concepts and asking him questions after each paragraph.  The chapter’s topic was “Force and Motion.”  We talked about friction, work, simple machines, and more.  To demonstrate force and work, I made him kick a ball softly and then a little harder.  I asked him which time he used more force and, therefore, which time he was doing more work.  He understood the concepts as we talked about them.  Jun seemed to be absorbing the material pretty well.  His pronunciation and ability to read out loud is very good.  He had trouble reading a couple of bigger words, but when I told him to slow down and sound them out, he was able to read them.   He even did a good job with writing down a few example sentences using terms such as “force” and “gravity.”  I’m hoping that Jun will remember the concepts and continue to do better in science. 

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