Chloe TS #5 (child)

For our fifth tutoring session, PJ and I continued reading Brian’s Return but he found it boring so we switched books after a few minutes. PJ’s lack of interest in the novel made it more difficult for him to focus, so things were much better when we switched books. We started reading I Survived, a collection of stories about historical disasters from the perspective of a boy or girl who survived it. We started on a story about the shark attacks of 1916, and it was very entertaining and informative. PJ and I both enjoyed it! The story focuses on the first major series of shark attacks in U.S. history, which resulted in 4 people killed and one injured. Several of the shark attacks took place in a creek, which surprised both of us. I told him that it is very unusual, but a shark can swim from the ocean into a creek. The book describes how people did not believe that the first death was from a shark attack. We talked about why that would be. The study of marine biology was just beginning so people knew very little about sharks and how dangerous they could be. At that time, people generally did not swim in deep water so shark attacks were extremely rare. We also covered some new vocabulary, mostly from the newspaper clippings in the book- “unavailed” and “crimsoned”.