It's That Time of Year Again...

Academy Prep visits! Last Tuesday, Mr. Righter led a group of Interns and Directors over to Ybor City to work with the Academy Prep students in the comfort of their own classrooms. The Berkeley tutors helped students come up with drafts of free verse poetry and persuasive essays. They would later bring those pieces over to our campus and polish them to perfection with the WC tutors.

The seniors started off the visits on Febuary 12th working on persuasive essays. I was paired up with a hilarious 7th grader named Adrian who's goal was to convince me why middle school students needed to have cell phones. I knew he would be a bit of work after he began the tutorial saying: "This is stupid." However, I broke past his sassy exterior when I convinced him that writing wasn't stupid and sometimes could be fun. He told me the story about when he got his first cell phone, and then proceeded to ask me everything about my life from what I got for Christmas to what class I had after lunch. Through all our conversation, I managed to help him organize his thoughts into an outline and complete an introduction- something he asked for extra help on. I had a great time with Adrian and it was sad to think that this is my last year working with these students.

The tutorials will continue on February 18th and 19th. Berkeley Juniors will be paired up with 6th graders and Sophomore tutors will be working with 5th grade students.