On February 15, 2019, I had another tutoring session at Gilchrest Elementary for an hour with Marcelle. The topic of the day was the continuation of the alphabet, with the letters q, r, s, and t. She completed the tracing worksheets for those letters, then practiced some more by writing them on the whiteboard. Then I read her a book about Thanksgiving and went over more words in the French-English dictionary. She practiced writing the words and I said each letter as she wrote them so she can associate what she writes with the letter names.
My next tutoring session was with Turki. We met at the Starbucks on Tennessee Street, the usual spot, and started the session with a causal conversation about life and his short term English goals. Turki decided he didn't want to continue with the second session of CIES classes, and that he wanted to rather focus solely on passing the IELTS exam. He said he found the CIES classes to be helpful, but also distracting. He said he thinks he's gotten the most out of his classes and that it would be more productive for him to study on his own. Where I don't completely agree with his logic, it is his life and I trust his decision making. For this session he brought his own material that he wanted to focus on. This time it was a reading passage that I even found to be quite difficult, and I was once again impressed by his far reach in practice and ability. The reading passage was accompanied by a set of numerous comprehension questions that we reviewed and answered together. The qu...
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