tutor 11

On June 9^th I met my tutee Matthew at Leroy Collins public library to go over his writing and grammar. Since the film analysis seemed like a good way to get Matthew to write and pay attention to the corrections in his writing, I decided to have Matthew do an analysis on various episodes of a Cartoon Network show called Regular Show. The reason I picked this show is because I did not have another movie saved to my phone and episodes of this cartoon are easy to find on YouTube.  Just like after movie scenes in Star Trek (2009), Matthew would watch an episode and then write ten lines on notebook paper about what he watched. Matthew’s writing and grammar today was good for the most part, but the first episode analysis featured a long run on sentence in the first sentence. I pointed this out to Matthew and told him that usually he writes sentences that are too short but now he is doing the opposite and writing sentences that are too long or need better punctuation. Matthew said he understood but used a run on sentence in the next analysis. I told Matthew we would work on this problem during our next session.