Marco TS#3

I made David cry today. He didn't do the assignment I asked him to and proceeded to sternly tell him he was a very smart, talented, and cunning young man that was simply lazy and bored and refused to make an effort. For about five minutes I explained that I knew this was boring to him, but that it was important. I expressed my frustrations but also said that I understood because I was the same at his age. I must have sounded more stern than I intended because he let out single tears. He held it in and refused to weep but he did gasp for a bit. I made him an offer, since I upset him so much I would leave the decision up to him to continue with me or replace with someone else; he said he wanted me to continue tutoring him. That was perhaps one of the greatest feelings I've ever felt. It was a victory and an accomplishment, and with a new found sense of mutual respect, we began again on "The Giver". This time he made an effort, he read what I told him to read and even went back to re-read previous sections for context. We discussed what he read a bit and to make it easy on him for being a good sport I showed him another magic trick and we worked on some simple problems from his work book. I left him with another assignment, by Monday he has to have finished chapter one of the book and have at least 10 words written down that he doesn't know from the text. We'll see how this turns out.