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Trevor's Tutoring Services

Locality: Doreen, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 402 087 615

Address: Woorawa Drive 3754 Doreen, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 This week, ten minutes left in a session and a student asks me, "why did the Renaissance happen in Europe, and not China?". Answers were crammed in (from Burckhardt), but sometimes students ask the best questions at the end of a tutoring session.

23.01.2022 Found a wonderful high res version:

22.01.2022 I have been handing them out to clients, to good feedback.

22.01.2022 Proverbs being covered today, here are some interesting ones involving hawks: https://www.wiseoldsayings.com/hawk-quotes/

20.01.2022 A student used this for an assignment. Some pretty good maps. https://www.thoughtco.com/maps-of-ancient-greece-4122979

19.01.2022 Is it, to get their just deserts, or just desserts? http://grammarist.com/spelling/just-deserts-just-desserts/

18.01.2022 When teaching history, it is important to connect it to the rich culture, numerous events, repeated events, and the sense of timeless uniqueness found in myth (which will both differ to and connect to other myths). Ensure your students understand the importance of myths and ideas, and the repetitions within history. Then the student should be fine, and remember what they are meant to remember. They will know the events, the links, the myths.

18.01.2022 For new students, one of the earliest things to do is to check comma usage.

15.01.2022 This is interesting. Enjoy!

13.01.2022 Very useful for some history students: https://merchantmachine.co.uk/medieval-trade-routes/

13.01.2022 What East Asia looked like when World War 2 officially started (September 1, 1939) Source: http://ow.ly/h3cw50olm7R

11.01.2022 The very first picture book for children, published in 1658. 'The Mouse chirpeth...The Duck quaketh... The Wolf howleth'

10.01.2022 Tuition continues via online means. In this time of lockdown, adapting may initially be confusing, challenging, frustrating, but learning is still possible, and the young are very adaptive to new changes.

10.01.2022 Sport or study?

10.01.2022 Just a bit of time between performances. That which is old is never truly dead if it is revived.

09.01.2022 Covered today in poetry class, Tolkien's Errantry. There was a merry passenger, a messenger, a mariner: he built a gilded gondola... to wander in, and had in her a load of yellow oranges and porridge for his provender; he perfumed her with marjoram and cardamom and lavender. He called the winds of argosies with cargoes in to carry him across the rivers seventeen that lay between to tarry him. He landed all in loneliness where stonily the pebbles on the running river Derrilyn goes merrily for ever on. He journeyed then through meadow-lands to Shadow-land that dreary lay, and under hill and over hill went roving still a weary way. He sat and sang a melody, his errantry a-tarrying; he begged a pretty butterfly that fluttered by to marry him. She scorned him and she scoffed at him, she laughed at him unpitying; so long he studied wizardry and sigaldry and smithying. He wove a tissue airy-thin to snare her in; to follow her he made him beetle-leather wing and feather wing of swallow hair. He caught her in bewilderment with filament of spider-thread; He made her soft pavilions of lilies, and a bridal bed of flowers and of thistle-down to nestle down and rest her in; and silken webs of filmy white and silver light he dressed her in. He threaded gems and necklaces, but recklessly she squandered them and fell to bitter quarrelling; then sorrowing he wandered on, and there he left her withering, as shivering he fled away; with windy weather following on swallow-wing he sped away. He passed the archipelagoes where yellow grows the marigold, where countless silver fountains are, and mountains are of fairy-gold. He took to war and foraying, a harrying beyond the sea, and roaming over Belmarie and Thellamie and Fantasie. He made a shield and morion of coral and of ivory, a sword he made of emerald, and terrible his rivalry with elven-knights of Aerie and Faerie, with paladins that golden-haired and shining-eyed came riding by and challenged him. Of crystal was his habergeon, his scabbard of chalcedony; with silver tipped at plenilune his spear was hewn of ebony. His javelins where of malachite and stalactite - he brandished them, and went and fought the dragon-flies of Paradise, and vanquished them. He battled with the Dumbledors, the Hummerhorns, and Honeybees, and won the Golden Honeycomb; and running home on sunny seas in ship of leaves and gossamer with blossom for a canopy, he sat and sang, and furbished up and burnished up his panoply. He tarried for a little while in little isles that lonely lay, and found there naught but blowing grass. And so at last the only way he took, and turned, and coming home with honeycomb, to memory his message came, and errand too! In derring-do and glamoury he had forgot them, journeying and tourneying, a wanderer. So now he must depart again and start again his gondola, for ever still a messenger, a passenger, a tarrier, a-roving as a feather does, a weather-driven mariner. https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Errantry

09.01.2022 This will be shown to my students from now on. :)

09.01.2022 What a wonderfully chewy word!

07.01.2022 On my favourite stapler, the 1936 Bostitch B5. http://munk.org//01/31/stapler-of-the-week-1936-bostitch/

06.01.2022 A very good resource for those doing language analysis: https://www.slideshare.net//guided-essay-writing-comparati

06.01.2022 https://www.nationalgeographic.org/hires/world-rivers/

04.01.2022 A student has been covering the samurai in class, so we had to include art (after history, clans, castles, weapons, and bushido). https://japanobjects.com/features/japanese-art

03.01.2022 https://www.grammarly.com//why-you-should-love-the-em-dash/

02.01.2022 TutorBright are good people that I have worked with. Here are 5 benefits of 1:1 tutoring. I would emphasise 1, 2 and 3. For 1 and 3, students that have never had tutoring before suddenly have a complete focus upon them and their needs. The tutor is right there, and every minute is about their improvement and their needs. In 2, the flexibility and time to attend to difficult, or more complex areas, can lead to far deeper knowledge. A student does not have to quickly move on be...cause the class moved on, and they can stay on a difficult area as long as is needed to improve. https://www.tutorbright.com.au//the-top-5-benefits-of-11-t