What's Up Readers,
In a teaching/tutoring situation ( or maybe in life in general ), sometimes you have to throw out the lesson plan in the middle of a class/session and start all over again ( accommodating the student? nature of student-centered ). I was uber excited to try out an accelerated 6 weeks course on persuasive writing and rhetoric, but Tutee B had something else in mind.
After 3 sessions, I realized that Tutee B wasn't ready to move on out of the Ethos stage ( totally understandable, since many things about this approach is very foreign, especially co-learning [Paulo Freire] ). The approach I would be adapting would be "pressing issues" supplemented by lectures from his English 10 class and principles from Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle ( indirectly applied ).
In a teaching/tutoring situation ( or maybe in life in general ), sometimes you have to throw out the lesson plan in the middle of a class/session and start all over again ( accommodating the student? nature of student-centered ). I was uber excited to try out an accelerated 6 weeks course on persuasive writing and rhetoric, but Tutee B had something else in mind.
After 3 sessions, I realized that Tutee B wasn't ready to move on out of the Ethos stage ( totally understandable, since many things about this approach is very foreign, especially co-learning [Paulo Freire] ). The approach I would be adapting would be "pressing issues" supplemented by lectures from his English 10 class and principles from Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle ( indirectly applied ).
Some of his immediate concerns dealt with, summarizing, writing a personal response, outlining, and speech making. On the side, we did poetry and flash fiction reading for vocabulary build-up, pronunciation, interpretation, reading strategies, and application. For some reason, he was very curious about literary criticism, especially Marxism ( revealing his experience studying in Japan as an exchanged high school student, and his awareness of Russian Chess moves and strategies ). I told him I'd share my limited knowledge and tips from my GRE Lit review book as well.
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