Mane - TS#2


Tutoring Session #2
                From our previous tutoring session, Abdulrahman’s homework was to memorize the definitions of some legal terms and have example sentences and scenarios ready of where these terms can be used. He was able to complete his homework except for struggling with a few terms like arraignment. When I was explaining to Abdulrahman what an arraignment was, he said that they don’t have a special hearing like that in Saudi Arabia. These days in America, many arraignments are not heard either because the defendant can just file a document with the clerk stating that they plea either guilty or not guilty. I explained what an arraignment was to Abdulrahman again by giving a scenario and an example sentence. I also let him know that arraignments are not always heard in America and as a business lawyer he does not have to worry about arraignments. Other than that, Abdulrahman had a good grasp of the material because of his background knowledge in law when he studied business law in Saudi Arabia. We continued the lesson with more legal terminology in the same way that we had done in tutoring session #1.

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