Mitch TS #2

On Tuesday I had my second tutoring session with Isik. This tutoring session was great! Much more effective than the first one. To plan for this assignment, I had anticipated that Isik would bring a writing sample, but even though she did not I still was able to work the entire hour with the materials I had recovered. I first covered some of the basic rules of English formal writing, and then we completed a series of writing exercises together in order to practice how well she can recognize mistakes, which will eventually help her write even better. We did three paragraph correcting worksheets that took the whole hour, and we went through each question and I explained why the answer was write or wrong. I learned that it was important to try to anticipate how well someone understands something, because sometimes I caught that even though Isik knew the right answer, she still did not fully understand why, so I knew to further explain it. It is amazing how much I am learning about English through all these activities, in this session I even learned a new word, "missives" which are formal letters. This tutoring session was a success in my opinion and I am excited to prepare for the next one.