Through many rounds of text messaging and calls, my tutee and I finally agreed on a good meeting time. We covered essay writing. I first discussed with him of what he wanted to focus on and after a short period of planning and organizing, I started with the pillars of writing an essay.
I used Adam's Sandwich Model along with the Greek Pillars model on how to write an essay. I drew on a white board that came equipped with the room. I drew visuals aids to better articulate and visualize the Sandwich and Greek Pillars models. By drawing these aids, my tutee became very enthusiastic and began to tentatively take notes and drew those said models.
After I discussed the paragraphs in an essay I asked him what he wanted me to focus on. "Everything," he replied. That day we started with writing the introduction.
I asked him what he knew about writing an intro and he stated that its purpose was to state the main idea. I enforced his answer by adding that the intro should have exposition along with the thesis. I explained to him that the exposition was the general information and background of the topic that he will be writing about. I gave him a practice writing topic, "Why should someone travel to Kuwait?"
Once I gave him the question, I transitioned into discussing the thesis statement. I shared with him that the thesis statement was the answer to the question or topic that was presented. I gave him a couple of minutes to brainstorm and we came up with his reasons for why someone should travel to Kuwait.
1. The nice weather 2. The modern architecture and attrations 3. He lives there.
I then had him verbalize his introduction and then had him practice and write it down. Through experience, I have found out that when students verbalize what they say, it will help them better understand what they were trying to say and would help facilitate in their writing proccess as well.
After that, we scheduled to meet the following day.
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