Mane - TS#1


Tutoring Session #1

                Abdulrahman wanted me to tutor him because he is interested in law and I happened to have a degree in paralegal studies. He said that he would like most of our tutoring sessions to be concentrated on law, legal terminology and the law school admission process. I devised a few loose plans of how I could incorporate law into our tutoring sessions. For our first session, I decided to concentrate on legal vocabulary. I found a website with a big list of legal terms and picked the ones that I thought would be beneficial to him as somebody who is interested in business law. We went through the list of the terms that I had made, I explained each one of them to him and we compared Saudi Arabian and American law a little bit. Since he had already studied law in Saudi Arabia, he already had a great deal of background knowledge about the process. Although Saudi Arabia differs from America in many ways culturally, at their core, legal processes in different countries are actually very similar. Abdulrahman did not have too hard of a time understanding the terms and what they meant. We then used the words in sentences and I gave him a scenario wherein each term would be used. His homework was to memorize the terms and to use them in context for the next class.

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