Yesterday I had my first session of this week with my child tutee Matt. Bruce was also sitting in on my session to observe us. I knew something was up when his twin brother arrived without him. When I asked him where Matt was, he said, "he just fell asleep in the car." Five minutes later he and his mom came walking in. Matt looked like a zombie. He immediately sat down and put his head on the table and was unresponsive when his mother tried to get him to sit up.
So I spent the first few minutes of our session trying to get him to sit up and be engaged in our lesson. Eventually when I was thinking that we were not going to be able to get any work done, he sat up and started mumbling a bit. Ok...rough start, but at least we were getting somewhere.
We began with continuing the outline for the opinion essay we had started in our last meeting. Matt's statements and evidence for his arguments in his essay were really good, despite his lack of energy. We went over how I wanted him to write his essay: an introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. His homework for this week is to write a rough draft that we will review next time.
His mother specifically asked for more reading practice, so we read a passage on Louis Pasteur together and he answered some comprehension questions. He did a decent job, but it took some effort to get him to read back through the text and find the answers to the questions.
We concluded our lesson with his favorite activity, creating flash cards for the vocabulary we are learning. I read a word to him and he attempts to spell it. We then review the spelling and definition and then he had to write a sentence using the word and draw a picture. After our rocky start, by the end of the lesson he was more engaged and I felt like we actually made some progress.
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