Date/Time: September 24th, 3:00 pm
Location: Hecht House Student Lounge
Topic/Skill: Practice for vocabulary dictation quiz
Feedback provided to tutee: During this session we focused on practicing for her vocabulary quiz on Wednesday. At first she just wanted my help with practicing dictation style quizzing with her class's new vocabulary words, but we both quickly realized she was having a hard time with the words themselves rather than the quiz format.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned:
I struggled a bit with explaining some of the vocabulary words, as I thought they seemed a bit difficult for her level. The words "segregate" and "desegregate" were on the list, for example, and I had a hard time explaining their meanings without her mixing them up. By the end of the session, we had gone through, defined every word on the list, made example sentences, and briefly practiced the words in the context of the quiz format. She had a lot of trouble with "sit-in" versus "boycott", since they are both forms of protest, but eventually understood the difference thanks to a short practice drill in which I only used those two words. After she mastered those two, I added the subsequent words one by one until she seemed to understand and feel more prepared for her quiz.
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