Yesterday I went to Mubarak’s apartment at Grand Marc for a tutoring session we had planned since our last meeting. Since we both have a significant interest and addiction to Zombie game on Call of Duty, I asked him to write out his game plan for the first twenty four hours after a zombie outbreak. To simply pretend that he was at home and saw, out his window, zombies eating people on the street and to write what he and his friends would do if this were to happen.
He crafted a plan outlining how he and his friends would try to obtain food, rudimentary weapons, and bunker down in their apartments, because of the extensive security, to wait for it to be over. The paper which, despite being sloppily hand written, was written fairly well. He successfully accomplished the future tense using phases such as “we will then” and “after that we’ll”. The only problem I noted, which we’ve run into before, was punctuation, the existence of sentences that were too long or too short and disruptive to the flow of the narrative. After mentioning the problem and giving it back to him to correct errors, he noted all but one. I had written seven sentences (about zombie killing) ahead of time which I gave to him so he could select which ones were right and sounded better. I’d told him four were right, the others wrong. He got three out of four.
Personally, I feel that at his advanced stage that his biggest setback is his lack of reading, whether assigned or in general. He’s admitted not to liking it and I’m having a tough time pushing through this natural hesitation. I asked him to read another short story for the next time we’d meet up.
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