January 22, 2020
Tutoring # 3
Mohammed Shaek
Catalina Cafe
'Reading & Writing'
Catalina Cafe
'Reading & Writing'
On Wednesday at approximately 4:00 PM, I met with Mohammed at the CIES center after I was finished with my conversation partner. He and I walked to Catalina Cafe, which is located next to Greenwise on Gaines Street. We talked about our days and how our classes were going and what we were doing for the rest of the day. Once we got to Catalina, we ordered food and sat down to eat. I told him what I expected of him today and what I was going to help him with for the next 3 hours.
The next topic we discussed was reading and writing. I presented Mohammed with an article that depicts the meanings of our dreams. I chose a rather advanced article because he is applying to Graduate school here at FSU and is expected to do a lot of research and understand difficult concepts while in Grad school. I had him read the article to himself and take notes if he so chose to do so. When he was finished, I asked him to write a short paragraph (5 sentences) that paraphrases the article that he read. After about 10 or 15 minutes, I had him read the paragraph aloud. Again, I corrected any pronunciation errors. I then asked him to give me the piece of paper so that I could look over his sentences for grammar and spelling errors. There were a few. We spent the next 30 minutes or so going over what was wrong with the sentences, and corrected spelling errors. After I explained to him why the sentences made more sense the correct way than his, I asked him to write more sentences so that I could read them. These sentences had minimal errors.
The next topic we discussed was reading and writing. I presented Mohammed with an article that depicts the meanings of our dreams. I chose a rather advanced article because he is applying to Graduate school here at FSU and is expected to do a lot of research and understand difficult concepts while in Grad school. I had him read the article to himself and take notes if he so chose to do so. When he was finished, I asked him to write a short paragraph (5 sentences) that paraphrases the article that he read. After about 10 or 15 minutes, I had him read the paragraph aloud. Again, I corrected any pronunciation errors. I then asked him to give me the piece of paper so that I could look over his sentences for grammar and spelling errors. There were a few. We spent the next 30 minutes or so going over what was wrong with the sentences, and corrected spelling errors. After I explained to him why the sentences made more sense the correct way than his, I asked him to write more sentences so that I could read them. These sentences had minimal errors.
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