Kristy Chimera
MED 300
Journal #7

	Well I did not go to Lafayette on Tuesday because of a family emergency, so I just have Thursday to talk about. Thursday was great! We only had three of our students.  Today was a review day. The students were given a worksheet with fifteen questions on it (three of which we had not covered so we had them skip). They were allowed to work together if they wanted. I ended up helping Jose for the entire class period. Jose if very touchy about doing work. Some days he participates, and some days he just sits there and will not do anything. Today I thought he was just going to sit there because he filled out a pass to go to his locker and was gone for about ten minutes. But to my surprise, when he came back he was ready to work. He looked at the first problem which was if f(t) = -3, then what does 3t^2 + 5t + 6 equal? Jose said he did not know what to do. With a little prompting, I got him to tell me that he had to plug in -3 for t in every place he saw a t in the equation. He plugged everything into his calculator but did not use parenthesis around the -3, so he got the wrong answer. I explained to him about the parenthesis with the calculator and had him redo the problem. This time to got the right answer. He then took out a notebook and started ripping pages out and throwing them out. I yelled at him and told him to put it away so we could finish the math. What I did not know was that he was taking out the notebook to write down all of the steps that we took to solve that problem. He made himself a study guide on his own paper.
	After we finished problem one, we moved onto problem three (problem two we cut out). Jose did the same thing once he finished the problem. He wrote down every single step that he took to solve it. This was so exciting for us to see. He only finished two problems during the class period, but he understood those problems. He was willing to participate and try to do the work. I hope that he has this new attitude every day from now on!