Leisurely Day

Today was a fun day. I only tutored Yosuke, and we spent most of the time studying for his geometry test tomorrow. It's really fun to teach someone with a natural talent in the subject. To use an analogy, if you want to teach someone to fish, you would normally show them how to bait the fishing rod, wind-up, and then later how to remove the fish from the hook. Teaching someone with a natural talent, on the other hand, is like taking them to the pier, showing them the rod and bait and seeing how they work it out on their own. If they make a mistake, you only need to show them why it won't work, not the correct way of doing it. They can figure out the correct way on their own.

We also finished Act II of Raisin in the Sun, which has the dramatic climax. Yosuke was actually interested in the play for the first time! It's so much easier to teach him when he's interested because then he'll actually think about it.