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MEETING NOTES

Below is an account of Session Meetings (most recent first) including any Project and Submission creations, as well as any selected Extras (optional - see above).


MEETING #7  (05/24/23)  


ATTENDANCE

Kaeden: 3-4:30pm


MEETING SUBMISSIONS

sorted by Contributor (Submission author)

Submission: Close Call

Contributor: kaxdrnn1

NOTES

Although this was supposed to be simply the day of the Presentation, because of last minute work by Kaeden (see Meeting #6) it ended up being a bit of an extra Meeting and Presentation day. 

I texted Kaeden that I would be a bit late, and that he should begin corrections on SUB 2 if he hadn't already.  I could've been on time, but wanted him to start without me.  Sure enough, when I arrived at 3:10pm, he had already logged onto computer and started working on his suggested corrections.

While he was working, I scoped out the presentation room and printed out SUB 1, which he had decided to read.

Kaeden finished SUB 2, which was published around 3:45pm.  I had him read SUB 1 out loud, for him to get acquainted and practice with volume and enunciation, etc.  Shortly thereafter, we headed into the room where 30-40 BGCYC members had assembled.

I gave a brief introduction to Project 1:1000, our process, and then let Kaeden have the floor.  He read SUB 1, received some applause, then remained for a Q&A session that lasted 10 minutes or so.

I applauded Kaeden for his work, both in front of the others and in private, afterwards.  He asked if he could keep writing, and I encouraged him to do so.  He asked if I would continue to help him with editing.  Of course, I said "yes."  Good kid.


MEETING #6  (05/16/23)  


ATTENDANCE

Kaeden: 3-4pm


MEETING SUBMISSIONS

sorted by Contributor (Submission author)

Submission: Other Family

Contributor: kaxdrnn1

NOTES

WORD COUNTS
SUB 1:  Begin: 963  |  End: 1000
SUB 2:  Begin: 200  |  End: 705


NOTES
As Kaeden logged onto his computer, we made a plan.  During the Meeting today, he would be finishing his first Submission and continuing on with his second Submission, which he claims to be at 200 words.  He talked about how his second one would be better, now that he “has a template.”  I encouraged him not to feel compelled to tell me everything he did, but perhaps fewer things - the most important things - with more details. “going down rabbit holes (what was in your head, how you felt, who you were with, a bit about them, etc.)

Kaeden finished his first Submission at 4:40pm, and immediately began work on his second Submission.  That means, if he really had as many as 200 words when he got back to SUB 2 today, he wrote another 500 words in 20 minutes!  Pretty impressive.  Hopefully he is not so much typing words as he is telling stories.  I think walking through SUB 1 will help with this.

We agreed that his second Submission would be submitted by 8pm tonight.

UPDATE: The next day, I received a message from Kaeden.  His second Submission was complete, but he had trouble attaching an image of sufficient size.  I helped him out, and he submitted SUB 2.  I subsequently copied the text to a Google Doc, complete with issues marked, and shared the document with him.


MEETING #5  (05/09/23)  


ATTENDANCE

Kaeden: 3-4pm


NOTES

WORD COUNTS
Kaeden:  Begin 1000  |  End: 900 (!!!)

NOTES
Unable to contact Kaeden before this week’s meeting, we spent the entire hour getting him logged onto the computer, then able to access, view, and edit the Google document I made with suggested edits to his first Submission, although it had already been published.

We talked through many of the corrections.  I had him explain why things had been flagged, what it should be, and why.  There were only a few themes of mistakes (see Meeting #4 notes), and he was able to correct the rest once we discussed the first instance of each one.

After deleting phrases, paragraph breaks, etc. Kaeden’s 1000-word Submission then only had about 900 words.  We laughed about it, and discussed that he had likely just made his piece stronger, more readable, etc.  “This is editing.  Good job.”

As our time ended, he stated he would be finishing this one and still thinks he can come up with 1-2 more.  I told him the next one should be easier if he kept these same things in mind.


MEETING #4  (05/02/23)  


ATTENDANCE

Kaden: 3-4pm


NOTES

WORD COUNTS
Kaden (SUB 1):  Begin 906  |  End: 1000

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Dawson informed me that Wyatt wasn’t here today.

We communicated with Paige (in Orlando for BGC convention) and confirmed our last Session mtg as 5/16 at 4pm and presentation 5/17 here at the BGC at 3pm.

K said he wrote a little bit since the last meeting.  He said he had more than 1000 and had to edit.  We talked about this being the sweet spot, a good thing for the art of editing, getting to the essential.  He finished his submission at just before 4:00, but I was so excited to get it/him published that I didn’t really proofread it.

The next day, I copied his Submission text to a Google Doc and flagged (via comments) about 40 issues with the piece.  i.e. 29 paragraphs, which could easily be ⅔ of that; verb tense inconsistency; missing commas, etc.  I shared the document with the email address he provided (kaeden.vidrine@icloud.com) but am worried he won’t see this before our next meeting.  We accessed his Google email and Drive to attach the image to the Submission, and I told him to clean out his Inbox that had 2446 unread emails!


MEETING #3  (04/26/23)  


ATTENDANCE

Wyatt: 3 - 3:30
Kaeden: 3 - 4


NOTES

WORD COUNTS
Wyatt:  Start/finish: 1000
Kaeden:  Start: 430  |  Finish: 858

With only 2 regular kids in the Session, I spoke with Dawson about maybe changing the venue of the end-of-Session presentation to the Boys & Girls Club instead of the library.  One good thing would be the older kids modeling writing, reading, and presentation for the younger kids, who would be able to attend if presentation held here.

I read a Submission from the website to the kids today, while they followed along on screen, to model sentence punctuation, paragraph breaks, reading, and presentation. Then I let them loose on their Submissions.

Wyatt has a rough day.  He was tired when I arrived, and seemed in a bad mood throughout.  He said he fixed his SUB, but it was still all in a single block of text with no punctuation.  (This was the impetus for me sharing my Submission.)  After the reading, Wyatt made a few paragraph breaks, then turned off his computer and left the room.

Kaeden did well.  He has good insight and instincts, says he can probably do 3 more SUBs before the end of the Session.  He says he wrote his first SUB (topic of Family) on the BGC because they’ve been more like a family to him than his real one.  After chatting, looking at his photos,  we decided  his next topic will be either friends or nature.


MEETING #2  (04/19/23)  


ATTENDANCE

Wyatt: 3 - 3:40
Molly: 3 - 4
Kaeden: 3:10 - 4
Melody: 3:30 - 4


NOTES

As Submission #1 was variously a mess or in varying stages of incomplete, most of the time was spent logging people in (signing Melody up) and letting them write.

Wyatt wrote 1000 words between the first and second Session meeting.  I sent him an email last week RE: misspellings, grammar, and run-on sentences.  No response.  No image attached to SUB 1 yet.  He says he has another 1000 words ready to go.  His mother picked him up at 3:40.

Molly showed up with “about 200 words.”  During the meeting, she at least doubled that amount.  She stated this will be her last in-person meeting and she is not sure she will be able to participate any longer.  We talked about the possibility of her reading her best Submission via Zoom, etc. at the end-of-Session presentation.

Kaeden had nothing started before the meeting.  After some prompting and help from Paige, he probably wrote 300-500 words.

Melody arrived at her first Session meeting.


MEETING #1  (04/12/23)  


ATTENDANCE

Wyatt Keierleber
Nevaeh Starr
Kaeden Vidrine
Molly Werhonig


NOTES

[Attendance and Notes are optional (extra payment) when requesting a Session.  We never spoke of them, but I thought I'd include at least an example of what they would be.  ~ DO]

A good first Session meeting in the computer lab.  After a bit of introductions, we toured the site a bit, reading from the first few sections of the FAQ, looking at Writing Cues, etc.  We then created accounts,  I showed them the mechanism for starting a Submission (1 picture + 1000 words), and we agreed that Family would be the first topic.  Molly said she didn't really want to write about that, so I let her choose her own topic.  Wyatt continues to surprise - talkative, then focusing in, stating that he was 200 words (word counter on the website) into his first Submission as I was leaving, about 4:10.