Amberly TS #11

 Zhou and I met at Greenwise on July 23 for two hours from 3:30-5:30pm. 

For the second hour I read the third part of the story. I then asked him comprehension questions and clarified anything he was confused about again. I followed this up with another dicto-comp activity. I chose some easier paragraphs for him to take notes on since the story consisted of language he was not too familiar with. We then had a discussion about English/American literature and the difference between that type of language with academic language. I thought it would be somewhat valuable for Zhou to understand more poetic and symbolic language to expand his knowledge of the English language. He is primarily exposed to academic language, so this was an opportunity for him to gain interest and potentially continue exposing himself to literature. He told me that the lesson with The Monkey's Paw was valuable to him because he had never read any form of English literature before. He had only read some popular forms but it was limited and was only in Chinese.