May 16th
At the beginning of each meeting with my tutee Yoshimi, I asked her whether she had some questions about her class or her homework. At this time of tutoring, Yoshimi showed me her essay which she had written in her composition class. I skimmed through her essay very quickly. Then, I found that there were some obvious problems with her structure when she wrote an essay.
When I took my TEFL class about how to teach students who were from different culture to write an American essay last week, I watched a video which showed some cultural differences when people wrote an essay or a research paper. This had given me a special perspective to understand the differences among different countries. So I decided to focus this tutoring on teaching Youshimi some basic knowledge about how to organize an essay: Introduction, body and conclusion. I told her how to put the thesis statement in the first paragraph, how to state 3 topic sentences in 3 different body paragraph and how to restate the thesis sentences in the conclusion.
In addition, I also found that Youshimi could not use the coordinating conjunctions in a right way. So I spent about 20 minutes teaching her how to use these FANBOY connectors to come up with some compound sentences correctly. I emphasized the use of punctuations when she connected sentences with these coordinators. In order to help her review these knowledge at home, I emailed her the link of this website:
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