Vie Miller TS#12

I met Mingu once again on Monday evening. After our last lesson, I decided to allay my own fears--and possibly Mingu’s--by finding academic material similar to the kind that he might encounter in the classroom. I wanted to see if he could understand it. I found a few different clips related to public service and found that Youtube would allow me to alter the speed of the clip. After locating the material, I needed to find a good clip to explain the Cornell Note-taking System to Mingu. I found such a video, and was excited for our lesson later that afternoon. I first showed Mingu the clip of the Cornell Note-taking System, which included an explanation of the system as well as an example of a filled out note-pad. Mingu told me that this was an efficient system which he thought he could use. Afterwards, we watched an academic clip that Mingu selected. We did some planning (I urged Mingu to write notes about what he wanted to capture), and then we proceeded to watch the video. Afterwards, I asked Mingu to what the main points of the video were, and he reiterated them successfully. This is very promising, and next time I will speed up the video to see if Mingu can keep up.