Sabrina TS#6

I met with Dasom yesterday, February 11, for our third official tutoring session. Because we had fun seeing a movie last week, I decided we needed to switch gears and focus on something more studious. She had shown me a passage she was working through for her reading class (a science article) before we went to see the film last week, and she mentioned how she was having trouble with it (she doesn't like science, nor the terminology). I asked her if she wanted to work through it in our tutoring session but she said no, so I decided to find my own materials for this session! I tried to find some short stories that she would enjoy and ended up choosing a piece by Ray Bradbury, "The Last Night of the World." I had read this piece in my senior high school English class so I was familiar with it, and I felt like it was sufficiently level-appropriate. I made two copies of the story and gave Dasom one when she arrived. I gave her a bit of background on the story and we began working page by page--I had Dasom read page 1 and circled words she had trouble with on my copy (both in pronunciation and meaning). After she would read, I read through the same page and stopped along the way to explain portions of the story out loud. I highlighted the idioms and explained them both verbally and in writing on the page, and I also wrote out definitions for her. We did this for each page and at the end we discussed the general point of the story (which was to express humanity). I also went back and wrote down phonetic pronunciations for her on the words she struggled with (she mentioned this was helpful, as I also tried to connect to her native language by using the little Hangul that I know, such as explaining how the 'c' sound in "clasped" was more similar to the 'ㅋ' sound than the 'c' sound in 'cover' was). I also showed her some Youtube videos of the cold war era so she would have even more context on the story. 

I feel like we got a lot done in that session, as Dasom walked away with a bunch of notes that focused on pronunciation, vocabulary, and content within an interesting story! I think I will employ a similar method in future sessions as she seemed to like this format.