Yesterday I met with my child tutee Matt. We began our session by going over his homework. His assignment from last Tuesday was to write the first draft of his opinion essay. I was a bit disappointed in what he had completed. In our last meeting we had worked out an outline for his full essay. It had each of the five paragraphs outlines and the content that each one would would cover. Instead of writing five paragraphs, he just wrote on big one with no details or supporting details. We spent the first part of our session editing and re-writing his draft. It was interesting how well and detailed he wrote when I was there. Obviously just an issue of motivation. We got about halfway through the draft, and in the interest of time, we moved onto a new topic.
Next we did another one of our reading comprehension passages. Matthew was really engaged today so he read through the passage fairly quick and finished his comprehension questions without any mistakes. Next we played hangman together to review his vocabulary words. I would give him a synonym for his vocab word and he had to remember what it was before I drew the hangman. He did pretty good but I was surprised that he didn't get them all correct because he knew them so well last week.
At the end of the lesson we reviewed the remainder of the book I assigned him to read, 'Call of the Wild.' He was able to give me a decent summary of the events that finished out the story. For the rest of our session, we discussed some of the themes in the book, especially animal abuse and treatment which the book deals a lot with. We also talked about how Buck must have felt to finally get away from the captivity the humans had kept him in for so long.
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