Mane - TS#14


Tutoring #14

Our second story was far shorter in length than the previous one but it required a longer schema building. I decided to divide the story into sections again and have discussions that are meant to serve as schema building activities, with PJ after each section. The story was about an African American mother and her relationship with her two daughters. The story also explored themes of reparations for African Americans, history of segregation as well as Islam in the African-American community. I had a lot of schema building to do. I was not sure how much PJ already knew about any of the aforementioned topics, so I asked him if he has ever heard the word segregation and what if he knows the historic meaning of it. He proceeded to tell me that he has learned about segregation at school. This made my job a little bit easier. From there we discussed other topics and started reading the story. As I had done in the previous two classes, I stopped after each section I had marked off to ask PJ comprehension questions. Once we finished the reading we also went through the comprehension questions at the end of the reading.

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