tutor 10

On June 8^th I met my tutee Matthew at Leroy Collins public library to go over his writing and grammar. Before the lesson began, Matthew’s mother Sara gave me a packet to go over The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons (1835) and the history behind the painting. Unlike the last Civil War packet (three full pages, seven questions); this handout about the 19^th century painting only contained three paragraphs and ten questions. I reminded Matthew that last time he did not fully comprehend the reading (Matthew thought the south beat the north in the civil war) and that he should be able to read the much shorter packet with more attention. After learning about the fire that burned down the House of Lords and Commons and the painting of the inferno, Matthew answered the seven multiple choice questions correctly along with the three short answer questions. Such questions asked “how could the mood of the painting best could be described?” “What is this text mostly about?” And “Based on the sentence above, how do the people in the painting most likely feel?”