I met with Mohammad Jashmir to help him with critical reading and help him understand the grammatical mistakes found in his writing. We first went over a few reading paragraphs, and why his answers to the questions based on the reading were marked wrong in class. The critical reading passages were interesting as they were of a higher-reading level than I would have expected for a Group 2 student. Some of the words were very advanced, and only from context could one understand the meaning of the word. I was proud of Mohammad as he was able to guess the meaning of every word almost to the tooth. I would give him the correct definition after he guessed just so he can know the proper definition for the word for future use.
As for his writing, we went over a simple one-page, five-paragraph essay of his about different diseases. The structure of his paper was great, the only problems were that he had some grammar mistakes such as "the childrens suffered" and some words that wouldn't be used to describe something in typical American english such as "The man passed the cancer" which he was trying to say that the man 'got over' the cancer. This essay was an old essay he had written for a CIES class a while back, and had asked me to fix the errors and explain to him what he did wrong word for word so he could use it for future reference.
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