Alex TS #3

On Friday March 13^th, I met my tutee Matthew for our third tutoring session. After the second session, Matthew’s mother Sara asked me to come up with my own lessons for Matthew since the last two lessons were based on Matthew’s vocabulary flash cards and language arts worksheet from school. So for the vocabulary portion of the lesson, I asked Matthew the definition of some vocabulary from my own personal vocabulary journal. Needless to say, some of the vocabulary new to a college student proved to be hard for Matthew, even the easier words that I thought he would know through context clues. So the difficult vocabulary was quickly ditched and the writing exercise began. I originally asked Matthew to write about what he was doing this weekend in 5 minutes, but after writing two sentences about youtube eating and sleeping, Matthew spent the majority of the time drawing soccer logos and other doodles. When I commented about his doodles, Matthew said that he would rather draw than write. Matthew’s comment gave me a great idea for a writing activity; I asked Matthew to draw for five minutes and then instructed him to write a narrative about his drawings for another five minutes. Matthew enthusiastically drew for five minutes and after wrote for another five minutes. Matthew when writing about his drawing showed a lot more interest and wrote eight lines of words compared to the weekend assignment which caused Matthew to write only two lines and drew him to doodle in boredom. Matthew’s drawing and story was about a three individuals who ate so much food at Chipotle that they opened up a wormhole. The story was resolved with the wormhole getting closed and the three individuals going back to Chipotle to eat one hundred dollars’ worth of food.  I think I will use the drawing and writing exercise in future writing lessons.