Ryan TP 3

At our second group meeting, the other of my original tutees, Stephan, showed up and joined Habib, Nasser and I. Also Chris and Nicholas joined us because their tutees did not show up. I welcomed their help because I felt we could be more thorough they would have input where I wouldn't, and vice versa. I had found an article from the biography.com website that had a short video about Marilyn Monroe and her life story. It also had an article attached that was about the same topic, but written by someone else. We used this for our integrated writing exercise. We watched the video once and went over what they had understood. They said that they did not understand much of it, so we went through it a second time, but this time I stopped more often through the video. In each section we tutors would come up with questions to test their comprehension. Some of our questions were simply stated facts from the clip like "What was Marlyn Monroe's real name?", and others were more inference based like, "Why did her first husband go to the South Pacific". As we went along we asked them to stop us if there was any word or phrase that they did not understand so that we could stop and go over it. It turned out that this seemed to be the most helpful idea because we got to go over commonly used phrases that aren't commonly taught or necessarily easy to understand. After doing this with the video, we did this with reading article and discussed what we were reading. At some point Soso also joined us after she was done with her original tutoring session. Some of the phrases and words we went over were, iconic, starlet, foster care, fizzled out, take off (as in a career), bombshell, bubbly, shelved, grossed, turmoil, and wed. When asked what topic they would like to study the next day they all agreed on American culture or icons.