On February 1, 2019, I tutored Marcelle at Gilchrest Elementary School from 10 till 11:05 am. We continued working on the alphabet. She practiced writing the letters e through g by tracing them on the worksheets and then by practicing again on her own in the whiteboard. I quizzed her by also telling her to write the letters we had learned in the previous session, both in uppercase and lowercase letters. I am going to continue quizzing her cumulatively to reinforce all of the letters she learns. Then we went over the French-English dictionary and she wrote a few of the words she knew how to say in English on the whiteboard. I would tell her what each letter was so that she can make that mental image and apply the letters to the words and meaning. In the end I read her a book of her choosing form the Fancy Nancy series and asked her questions as I read to keep her engaged.
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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