Will TS#12

     I met with Marina this afternoon and we went over some work from a couple different classes. She was assigned to write a formal complaint style email, so we started with that. The email was really good, there were only a few minor corrections to make. I prompted her to supply correct answers to replace a few words and she was able to do it for most of them. The main issue with the email was the incorrect use of “have” in a few spots where it made more sense to say “done” or “did”. After that, we worked on another assignment that involved gerunds and perfect infinitives. She did pretty well with that one as well. The rest of the session we focused on noun clauses versus adjective clauses. The assignment was to write several example sentences for each one, in relation to a Halloween themed reading that they were given. She’s not really having any trouble identifying them, but she’s having a difficult time creating example sentences that use one or the other intentionally. I was having a hard time thinking of how to help teach it better but I’m going to look up some reference material and we will cover it more thoroughly on Wednesday. 

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