Sabrina TS#6

March 23rd @ 9AM - 10AM

Skype 

In this session So Young and I did a lot of vocabulary review. I shared with her a list of historical vocabulary words. It was a list available on a website called quizlet.com. We went through each of the words and I gave her example sentences and more detail definitions. Afterwards, I asked her questions about a few of the words. For example I asked her to explain the difference between culture, community, and civilization. After some discussion over the vocabulary words, we did a game together. On the quizlet website there is a matching game. We successfully completed the game. Afterwards I asked So Young to write two paragraphs about a Korean historical event using the newly learned vocabulary words. 

It took So Young some time to brainstorm what she would write about and outline her ideas. I told her it did not have to be long but just wanted to see if she knew the usage of the words correctly. She shared her two paragraphs and we reviewed the errors. We had a discussion on run-on and incomplete sentences. 

We then read an article on Ancient Egypt from a scholarly historical website. Before reading, So Young and I talked about what we knew about ancient Egypt. So Young did not know much about the history except that they were builders of the pyramids. I used this article because it used many of the vocabulary words we had learned earlier in the session. 

After reading, we discussed the new information we had gathered about ancient Egypt and I asked So Young some comprehensive questions. For our next session, I decided to provide So Young some extensive reading material. I told her to read the first chapter of the book, “The Gift of the Magi” and we would discuss it for our next Tuesday session.