Jeff Dinert TP12

My last tutoring session took place at the end of last week with Abdhulrahman, an it ended up being a continuation from our previous tutoring session where we worked on the basic essay writing format, and also in writing complete sentences and learning where and how to punctuate as well as using articles and tense correctly. Writing lessons turn out to be lessons in form, grammar, vocabulary, and content review as you go over each sentence and eventually the whole paragraph and essay to see if it contains what you wanted it to contain. Abdulrahman had an assignment to write a paragraph in his essay about Tallahassee that would be his second body paragraph to do with his new friends in America. When i arrived at his house, he had actually done his assignment, and had a good paragraph with about 7 sentences talking about his friends. So carrying over from the previous day he wrote some simple sentences, on his own, one introducing the paragraph, one introducing each friend and then another sentence describing them. So he started to see the outline like form of an essay, and fill in the information. We edited the paragraph for punctuation, and i showed him a couple of complex sentences with commas to possibly combine two sentences into one with some of the transitional phrases he learned in CIES, and we bean the third body paragraph with a sentence about going to CIES to eventually attend FSU and obtain his doctorate in information technology. we worked on this paragraph for about twenty minutes and then i explained how to do a conclusion, and wrote a simple example for him to follow and said next time we meet we should go over his version f a conclusion. Who knows if he could possibly retain all the information we covered, but he learned enough to write a larger essay than before with correct punctuation, and an understanding of format and order from a one on one lesson. As a close to the essay we did an online word scramble where the sentences scrambled were proverbs and the words were out of order and he had to guess which order they came in, and then we talked about the meaning of the phrases, where he learned a lot of vocabulary, and used google translate to explain to me what he wanted to say and then we said it correctly in English. It was a fun class, and I met with him a couple of time this week already to do some grammar and speaking, and hopefully I can help him this Fall.