McKenzie- Tutoring- 4

Today I met Abby at the library to tutor her. Last time we met, I asked her to write a list of ten differences between Korea and the U.S. for homework. I learned my lesson about being very specific with directions because she came in today with ten extensive paragraphs and I only intended her to write ten sentences! For the most part, the only mistakes she had was that she started sentences with because, and, and but, but once I explained to her that you can't start sentences with transition words like that, she self-corrected the rest of the paper.
Some of the differences she pointed out included:
Koreans eats more seafood
People are friendlier with greetings in the U.S.
Driving is more dangerous in Korea
Trees are preserved more in the U.S.

Next, we went over six different possible phone scenarios (ideas for the scenarios were provided in the literacy handbook the library provided). I had her pretend to call her friend and then told her she had the wrong number, had her try to make a doctor's appointment, dinner reservations, and practice calling her landlord about a plumbing issue. She really liked this activity because she said she has trouble on the phone a lot.

The last thing we did was go through a quiz in an issue of Glamour Magazine that I bought in. The quiz was about American beauty myths such as "sleeping with makeup on causes wrinkles, hair products must be changed every 3 months, toothpaste clears up zits, etc." I thought this would be fun and sure enough, Abby really liked hearing about American beauty traditions. I learned that in Korea, women clear up pimples by putting garlic on them!

Next week, instead of meeting at the library, we are going to meet at the flea market on Saturday morning. I got this idea from a comment Ramin said about taking a walk and asking them to name things we walk by. Abby is excited to go.