Selene TP-4

My third session with Soongyu went well. We decided to begin meeting in a smart room in Strozier rather than the noisy coffee shops of our previous meetings. For homework, she wrote a summary of the Newsela article we had read together the previous session. Her writing ability was significantly lower than I expected. Since she is an FSU Visiting Scholar and her reading aptitude is very good, I thought her writing skills would be more advanced. Her summary was very unsophisticated in nature and had quite a few grammatical errors. The way she structured her paragraphs was very formulaic (to begin with, first, second, to conclude) and she repeated the same points a few times. It's obvious to me now that this is the area where she is weakest and thus we should focus on it more. However, the only activity I have come up with so far was writing the incorrect sentences on the board and talking through the mistakes. I think she felt this was beneficial but it is not my strongest suit since I have not studied grammar in a long time.