Next week will be the last time I meet with Abby, even though I have enough hours.
We met at Black Dog Cafe today. We went over the recipe I assigned her for homework. She wrote out a recipe for Korean BBQ and did a really great job! I plan on trying it out sometime this weekend.
Next, I brought in a few vocabulary crossword puzzles I found online. Each one had a theme: restaurants, clothes, jobs. We did the clothing crossword together. Abby filled in a word, and then I would do one, and we just kept passing it back and forth. She says she really liked them so I gave her the other two to take home and do at home.
The last activity we did took awhile. I brought in a handout that corresponds to a chapter on immgration in a high school American history textbook. The chapter discusses early immigration in the late 19th/early 18th century America. Together, we read 6 pages and filled out a chart. It was a grid, and vertically was labeled "Regions: Asia, Caribbean, Central America, Southern/Eastern Europe, Asia," and horizontally "What countries came here, What reasons they had for coming here." We went through and using the textbook, filled out each box on the chart. For example, in the box "Asia, Countries," we put Japan and China. In the box, "Asia, Reasons," we put farming, railroad, and mining jobs.
It was interesting talking about how much immigration has changed since then. There are fewer immigration quotas, no Ellis Island, stereotypes have changed. I think this was a relevant activity because Abby got to learn a little American history and talk about immigration, as well as practice reading and writing!
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