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The student and I continued to work on indirect and direct objects. We had to talk a lot about how these work in English in order for the student to understand how they work in French. In the end the student was excited that French was actually more logical than English! I was worried about moving on to the "y" and "en" pronouns, but by the time we got to these, the student had such a great grasp of the other forms of pronouns that she got it with zero difficulty. It was amazing!

Spent today working on a lot of conversation and listening comprehension as well as the grammar topics in chapter 3 and specifically the pronunciation rules; we also talked about different dialects and different accents and determined that the single-flapped R (as in Haitian, etc.) sounds more attractive to the ear than the guttural R a la mode.

Today we had some great French conversations. I taught the student some vocabulary relating to cooking and food. We acted out a scripted conversation about cooking. Then I asked her questions and she was able to respond with her favorite foods and recipes.

Today we went over the material that the student is going to use for her presentation in French class. She is going to be doing a presentation on Sacre Coeur in Paris. We worked on the dialogue that she will be presenting. We discussed facts as well as practiced pronunciation.

The student and I reviewed the subjunctive, how to form it and how to use it, including the ten different cases on would use the subjunctive in. We also reviewed when to use the indicative vs. the subjunctive, as well as the past subjunctive.

Today we started the session with French practice since we had not been able to do that on Monday. We reviewed the pronunciation of the new vocabulary and practiced using it in context. For Algebra, we reviewed the homework, fixed mistakes and practiced some slightly more complicated problems concerning isolating a single variable from a group of variables in an equation.