Jordan TS#13

On August 7 I tutored David for the fifth time. Ms. Hong asked if I could have him do the opinion writing section in his workbook, so we started with that. David is not a fan of writing either. I allowed him to do an opinion piece about dinosaurs, since he is fond of them. We went over the topic and three supporting reasons with supporting details. He wrote the introduction paragraph without much issue, but then he tried to write each supporting paragraph as if it was the introduction to an new opinion essay as to why that supporting detail was true. I had to remind him that we are assuming these details are true and using them to support the topic. He is trying to do this by rote to such a high degree, that I don't even know how much understanding is actually sinking in. It was slow going, but we got an essay written. I thought about doing the revision part, but he was clearly burned out on it by that point. It didn't seem like the effort would be worth the likely minuscule payout. After a quick math game that he suggested, he was much more energetic. I asked him what he wanted to learn about, and went to get the young readers version of the World Book encyclopedia. I figured it is a good time for him to learn research. Getting him to read anything was still a chore, but I tried to stick to it more and managed to get some satisfactory results. Not as many as I would like, but some. I am trying to take Marco's attitude more to heart. It takes practice, but I think I can get it.