We had a very interesting discussion about how trauma impacted O'Brien's reliability as a narrator. We both knew the book well and shared examples from the text about trauma in his novel. I trust this inspired Noah to write. I printed out some articles for him to read and examples of the harvard in text citing and reference style. He has scheduled a lesson with me for the 2nd of July to edit a draft of his essay.

He needs to work a little bit at a time in my absence. I feel I need to encourage him to work on his project now that I am tutoring him, every other week.

He could pick out the topic sentences in the paragraphs now that he has had some practice. He was introduced to cohesive devices and learned a few definitions of those devices and where to use them appropriately.

For his homework, he was to choose a topic sentence from a re-arranged set of sentences in a paragraph. He had some trouble picking the topic sentence. His home work this time was to write out the sentences in the 3 jumbled paragraphs in order. And to write a paragraph on a topic of his choice filling the details using cohesive devices.

He was through in his explanation of the task. He understood the assignment, when it was due, what he needed to do by when, etc. He asked questions about structure, trauma (the essay topic), he found examples of confusion about the issue in the novel, he asked questions about his approach and referencing. He sent all the materials via email to me.

I need to prepare and provide useful feedback and support. He nerds to come up with a plan for the essay to present to his teacher.

The reading and writing went well. He worked through the questions and gave appropriate answers with text evidence.

He had some difficulty with the writing prompt. I needed to scaffold the writing task.