I met with Dasom on the 18th, and we had two sessions. During the first session we read another short story--this time it was "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe. I later found out that she was reviewing this story with her reading class, so I'm glad that I chose relevant material. I first showed Dasom some images and videos to build her schema on Edgar Allen Poe and the genres that he influenced (such as southern gothic and mystery). We then got to reading, and I corrected her pronunciation and defined vocabulary words for her on the page. She did have a bit of trouble with the names in the story as they were quite dated ('Amontillado', 'Montresor', and 'Fortunado' were the names she had trouble with) but we got through the story without further hitch.
The second hour we spent going over some minimal pairs that she showed me. Most of the words had 'r' and 'l' sounds or 's' sounds. I wrote out the words on a blank sheet of paper and tried to emphasize the differences in pronunciation by describing tongue placement and intonation. I also showed her the differences in vowel sounds (long vowel sounds versus short vowel sounds) and helped her write out the sounds of each word. Some of the words were: leap, reap, seek, sick, lean, and line. I helped her spell out these words phonetically as well!
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