Jennifer- TP04- 9/15/10

For this meeting Woon Jee and I met in my office to go over a current event topic (something she had expressed interest in during our first meeting). I decided to try out one of the lesson plans that I had already submitted to see how it would work out. We went over a short video that covered the issue relating to the mosque in New York. I let her watch the video twice before giving her the article that explained in greater detail what the issue was about. I wanted to make sure that the video focused primarily on the facts of the situation, and found one on voanews.com that was pretty good. After Woon Jee watched the video twice we talked about it for a few minutes. I gave her the article to read over and once she was finished reading it she felt more confident in talking to me about it. There were a couple of terms she was unfamiliar with, “ground zero” and “sharia.” She also had some difficulty understanding the information the video gave when they described the mosque being rebuilt into a “modern day Medieval Cordoba.” I explained this to her and told her a lot of people would probably struggle with this concept and that the only reason I knew about it was due to my Islamic Art class I took as an undergraduate.