Yesterday, in between lessons, I sat in my car and started to outline the book. I finished the breakdown on the whole first section, which is 100 pages (out of 315). Then, I started making notes on the new sequence of events. It seems to be working. I'm less apprehensive about hacking it all up now.
On Monday, a 9 year old student of mine who is very sassy, giggly, funny, cute and likes to argue with me, got grounded for 2 weeks in the middle of her lesson for doing just that. I felt bad for her, although I have to say it nipped her arguing in the bud and made our lesson more productive.
There are so many kids who have such great potential and whose parents don't realize or won't accept that they have to MAKE their kids practice. In 17 years of private teaching, I think I've only had 4 or 5 kids who chose to practice of their own volition before the age of about 12.
I digress...
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