tutor 6

On May 25^th of 2016, I visited Matthew my 5^th grade tutee for the sixth time at LeRoy Collins public library. Today before my lesson with Matthew began, his mother Sara handed me a packet about the Civil War. It contained 3 pages and 7 questions at the end. Since this was too many pages for Matthew’s attention, I created my own questions for each individual page and had Matthew answer them after reading the page. Questions for the first page included How long did the Civil War last? What were the large farms with slaves called? What was the most popular crop on the plantation? And True or False, Slaves only worked on the plantation fields. The questions for the second page included what state prohibited slavery in its constitution in 1777? What is gradual emancipation? Refugees from European economic and political conditions settled in which states? And what was abolitionism? For these questions, Matthew only got 2 out of 4 correct for both pages one and two. After going over both pages again to ensure Matthew got 4 out of 4, I decided to change things for the last page. I instructed Matthew to read the last page and then write about it. Matthew read it and started writing but asked to see the page again. I told Matthew this activity was to see how well he comprehended what he read and that giving him the packet would defeat the purpose. Although Matthew did well with the beginning of his 10 line paragraph, he wrote that the union lost to the confederacy in the civil war. After explaining how to find main ideas and facts we ended our lesson.