Curtis+Strange+Reflections+February+21+&+23

** Curtis Strange Reflections (February 21st and 23rd) ** ** 1. ** //** Checklist **//** -- What specific tasks from the project checklist did you and your buddy begin, work on, or accomplish? What step are you on the checklist? ** This week my buddy and I continued to move through the outline, filling out each bullet point and citation. Today, we finished the outline entirely and moved on to starting the storyboard portion of the project. We are still in the preliminary work stages of the project.

** 2. **//** Summarize **//** your session with your buddy. What went well? What challenges do you encounter? How did you overcome or deal with these challenges? ** ** Today, thinking aloud helped especially. Again, I encountered the challenge of my buddy struggling to form her own ideas based on her research. I modeled thinking aloud strategies to show her how I would paraphrase or go about doing a "dear diary" section which helped her think better and formulate her own ideas. I also got my buddy to think about how her person would think in terms of emotions versus simply restating accomplishments or facts in the "dear diary" section. This time, my buddy brought a big eraser which definitely helped when she had to go back and erase things. **

** 3. **//** Reflections **//** - what did you do well today? How were you supportive? What area do you need to improve in for your next session? ** ** The thinking aloud strategy was successful again in supporting my buddy to begin to think differently, especially when doing the "dear diary" section. I made sure Keiira was spelling correctly and using proper grammar. I explained to her the importance of practicing in the preliminary stages so by the time we get to the actual StoryKit project, she won't have to correct much of her writing. I need to work on allowing my buddy to make mistakes and then learn from them as she goes. Today I feel as if I may have been overbearing when she would spell things wrong at times. I would allow her to write out what she was thinking and then have her read it aloud to find places to insert commas and recognize her own mistakes. However, if she didn't catch a spelling mistake, I would point it out. Maybe I could have left this for the actual typing everything into StoryKit. **

** 4. **//** Plans **//** - what are your plans for the sessions this week? How will you prepare? What will you prepare? ** ** Next week we will continue with the story board portion of the project. We are on page four of chapter one. As we go, we are making sure we have correct spelling and grammar, imported pictures, drawn pictures, and the other specifications for each chapter. I don't need to do any outside preparation at this point because my buddy and I have all we need to continue on successfully. **