Nicole Tutoring 2

Today Harry and I worked on his writing.  He has the WOH paper so we used that as a writing topic.  He needs to choose a side of the Industrial Revolution and then defend it.  To help him decide I had him use the white board wall in my office (a wall that functions as a white board) to lay out his options.  He listed the positions and underneath them the details of the position.  After he chose his side we had to formulate a thesis.  Harry was not familiar with what a thesis is so I explained it to him and also provided him a handout on writing a thesis statement.  He then worked on crafting his thesis.  We went through a few different sentences until he created the strongest option.  Today was a material heavy day for Harry.  I can see the exhaustion he feels from focusing so much on this topic.  He tried very hard though and is leaving with something tangible.  The goal for next session is that Harry will have written his paper and we can go through and edit the paper together.