Mary_TP4

I didn’t anticipate how frustrating it would be have a tutee not show up for a session. This happened last week when Ahmed and I agreed to meet later in the week to study relative pronouns. It’s not easy for me to get over to campus (it’s about a 30 minute drive) and to find time between work and school to get out there. I had gone online to do research and found worksheets, and thankfully those came into use at our next session. Ahmed apologized and I said I would text him from now on to make sure we could meet up. I found that when it comes to difficult subjects, like relative pronouns, it is best taught in the simplest of terms. We checked the worksheets together and I would ask, “Is it a subject, object, or possessive?” He usually got that first part right. Then I would ask “Is it a person, thing, place, time, or explanation?” I had to describe some of those terms, but once it got the hang of it he could get most of them right and correct his own mistakes.