AJ Tutoring blog - The Learning Curve

English students in the Bay Area face many unique challenges. Not the least of which is engaging in a humanities classroom in a tech-dominated region, where the word “analysis” tends to refer first to data and computers and only later and tangentially to the interpretative process that ...

English students face many challenges unique to the humanities classroom. From reading books whose relevance remains elusive to in-class writing projects where rubrics prompt fear and trembling, the young writer enrolled in a Bay Area English course has myriad reasons to seek tutoring. The ...

If your student has had a hard time writing essays, whether for history or English class, the difficulty often comes from one single sentence: the thesis statement. A lot is riding on the thesis statement. Most teachers (and AP exam graders) expect the thesis statement to do many things well: ...