8/22/11 TP 12
For our final session, I asked Clarita to write me small composition in 20 minutes. The prompt was: My most memorable childhood memory. I asked this because I wrote mine out a while back for a class and so I had Clarita read it out loud at the start of the session. I figured this was a nice way to end our sessions because we each shared a great experience when we each grew up in Ecuador. Clarita’s story was about her childhood summers in the beaches in the coast. How her family used to get a house for a week or two and enjoy the beach together. Since she was just starting to practice her writing I told her it was ok to leave spaces for words she couldn’t remember or if she couldn’t think of a specific word to try to describe it. I would help her figure it out after. We went over the essay together. I asked her to read sentences that needed to be revised out loud; to try to find the error herself before I helped her. Her grammar is not all that great but we went over a few things like subject-verb agreement. At the end of the session I talked to her about maybe attending an adult ESL class nearby her home. I hope she tries to go.
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