On Monday the 18th was my second to last meeting with Astin. Astin and I did more or less what we usually do. We started out by going through his English homework and I did not give away any answers, but helped him through the various activities and assisted him where he had issues. In addition to this, his mother asked me to have a conversation with him about what cheating was and why it was bad. It was interesting, he was very sad he got yelled at, but when I was explaining it to him, it turns out he did not understand at all what he had done wrong or why he had gotten yelled at. After explaining it, it seems that he understood and promised me he would not do it again at school. We then read one of the books from his favorite series, and did a series of word search exercises in which I incorporated both reading and vocabulary. I asked him to read all the words, rewrite them, then tell me what they meant, and finally when he was done he could do the fun part: find them! He loves these exercises, and even though he always wants to skip to finding them, I use that to my advantage as intrinsic motivation for him to get through the work part of it first. Astin was sad that he only got to see me one more time, and I told him next time I would make the lesson fun because he had been such a good student.
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