Wednesday Class

Logical Reasoning

Test 17, Section 2, Q18 — Children

Test 17, Section 2, Q19 — Children

Test 17, Section 2, Q20 — Fishes

Reading Comprehension

Test 17, Passage 4 — African drought

Logic Games

Test 17, Game 2 — Committees

Highlights

In a moment of heterodoxy, Demon Tutor Chris gave students permission to start with a question stem. This is because Test 17, Section 2, Q18 — Children and Test 17, Section 2, Q19 — Children are Logical Reasoning questions with an identical argument. Working to understand it the first time felt like a two-for-one special.

Next, the class became temporary experts in meteorology to defeat Test 17, Passage 4 — African drought. Chris showed students how to approach the passage like a three-year old, stopping to ask why after every sentence. This method for predicting the author’s purpose allowed us to anticipate their argument and make unfamiliar worlds less scary. We knew what the author needed them to do.

We ended class with Test 17, Game 2 — Committees, a game with a lot of freebies that rewarded students for identifying the determinative variable. We learned flexibility isn’t a bad thing when we’ve done the important work of eliminating the rules.