Ning Liu TP#11

Again, Sally and Rayna were not present. However, I assumed that this was the case, thus I was relatively prepared. Jason was very excited to tell me about his upcoming fishing trip with his father. Apparently his father and he are going to go fish near Destin with 3 other families (though it seems to be a man trip). This gave me the idea to have Jason write an essay of what he’s going to do. I did not restrict him to a 5 paragraph format, as that would be too long at his level in my opinion. Thus, I asked him to write one paragraph essay about his future fishing trip. I gave him about 20 minutes to write it. I would say that his fluency is fine, but his structure and grammar needed work. There were a lot of dependent clause sentences. I fixed a few grammar errors such as mixing up simple present and in progress. Afterwards, we looked for a book about fishes and fishing. To Jason’s dismay, there weren’t any children’s book about fishing, so we picked up a book about fish and read it. This book talked about a salmon’s journey from birthday to adulthood. This turned out to be intensive reading than extensive, as there were jargons in the book. The concept was understood, but the words themselves were foreign. As I explained what the words meant, he understood them and gave synonyms to support his understanding. I asked him to create some example sentences, which he did perfectly on.