Logan_TP#11

J Logan Matthews
TP#11
Sep 19, 2014 (5:30PM-6:30PM)
Tutee's Residence

I believe this was the third tutoring session with Claire. Her mother, Jihei, wanted to start on the reading immediately this time since her homework had already been completed except for the math. This time the book seemed a little more advanced than before and Claire seemed to be getting tired at one point. I still thought to press on since Jihei had established that they needed at least thirty minutes of reading aloud a day.

Thankfully, she perked up the further we got through the book. The book was a novelization of Henry Ford's background and first race with the Model T. Like any other kid, Claire chooses her books from how interesting the pictures appear. So the racing portion only happened in the later half of the book where the funniest pictures were. Throughout the reading I found some things to elaborate on like how to choose a different voice when reading a line within quotation marks and the dash line between phrases signalling a change in intonation. At one point she became curious why Henry Ford's companion was named Spider, so I introduced the concept of nicknames while eliciting examples and providing my own.

After the reading, I debuted the picture dice game I had purchased earlier. There were three ways to play but they all involve building a story with whatever pictures the dice roll on and images they evoke. Claire choose to use the world dice first so we began "Once upon a time, on the earth" and then she choose the symbol dice (symbol for chaos) to say there was a symbol upon the earth and so on. Eventually we ended up with a story that rambled on a bit but still wrapped up nicely. I helped her define the last dice (rainbow in the clouds) to a leprechaun but she did not have a problem coming up with ways to use the other dice. All throughout I was writing the grammatically correct forms of the sentence which I had her read afterwards.