Kristy Chimera
MED 308
Journal #6

	Tuesday at Lafayette was great. Jose was back after being suspended for about a week. Since he had missed all of that material, I ended up helping him for the entire class period. Jose has moods; one day he will participate and be interested in the material, and another day he won’t care about anything and just sit there doing nothing all class. I got the feeling that he was in the kind of mood where he didn’t want to do anything, so I pulled up a desk right next to his, and helped him through the worksheets from the week before for the entire period. He really seemed to understand the concept of slope when we were finished, although he had trouble understanding the work “steep“. I had to explain it to him using streets around Lafayette. I asked him if Lafayette was “steep” and he said no it is flat. He just could not understand that steep meant the same thing on the graph. By the end of the class, I think he understood it.
	Thursday was different for me. I was not really in the mood to be teaching with everything going on in my family life. I felt bad that I was not with it at first. Nichole ended up teaching most of the lesson as I helped individual students as we went along. Towards the end of the class I got more into it and started teaching a little more. Actually, once I was teaching it made me forget about everything for a while! But the students did not really understand the material today until the end of class. We were writing equations in point-slope form. To review the previous days’ materials, we first did an example in slope-intercept form. That example took about 15 minutes which we were not planning on. Then we did the same example in point-slope form, and then converted it to slope-intercept form. Yesenia came up to the board and was writing the equation in point-slope form and changing it to slope-intercept form when the bell rang. She stayed for a  minute after the bell to finish the example and then she sat down at her desk and wrote it down in her notes! She said she understood it and seemed to be excited about it. Hopefully on Monday we can pick up where we left off and they will all understand it.