I met today at the CIES computer lab with Chinese student Yan from 4-5 pm. I asked what she was working on and I found out she must do a presentation on Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise". We brainstormed ideas and she came up with the idea of introducing the author and focusing on the techniques and content of the poem. For techniques, she determined repetition, rhyme, and metaphor would be good to present. For content, her plan is to talk about how slavery relates to the poem. I agreed that this was a good plan. She read the poem and we went over vocabulary she was unfamiliar with ('sassiness', 'thighs', 'welling'). Yan then got my e-mail address so that she can send her finished presentation to me.
The second half of our session focused on another presentation in which she has to teach a class for 15 minutes as if she were an English teacher. I helped come up with some ideas without completing the work for her- she definitely led the conversation and brainstorming. Lastly, I introduced her to my Homophone Dictionary (words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different definitions). She was so excited about homophones that she took a picture of the book! It's so good to see students get as excited about English minutia as I am!
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