Jillian TS #6

Date/Time: May 19, 2017; 9:00-10:00 A.M.
Location: Home via Skype (Tallahassee/Seoul)
Topic/Skill: "Predicting the Fall of Anne Boleyn"; Speaking/Listening/Reading
Feedback: Soyoung needed some word choice and preposition correction. I generally repeat the correction and Soyoung will use it afterwards to fix her sentence. I also had to define some words while we were looking for our next article to read.

The article I chose for the tutoring session was about predicting the fall of Anne Boleyn. Actually, it was about some lesser known prophecy/conspiracy theory that Thomas Cromwell supposedly used to base his suspicions about Anne Boleyn. Soyoung admitted she did not really like the article. She likes the Tudor era but the article did not catch her attention. I asked what she thought of the article anyways, and she said she does not one hundred percent believe the conjectures. She thought the concept of a prophecy seemed a little implausible.

We briefly had a discussion about history's portrayal of Anne Boleyn. We both agreed that Anne Boleyn went down in history a little more infamously than she probably deserved. She was sly and cunning, but there are always other things you need to consider before writing Anne Boleyn off. Soyoung actually mentioned what her history professor said one day in class. He said that history cannot be objective and that sometimes it's very skewed. I think this was very fitting for Anne Boleyn's history.

Soyoung went on to tell me her favorite Tudor era person is Lady Jane Grey. We briefly talked about Jane Grey's history and her ultimate downfall at the hands of Mary Tudor. I told her all about my favorite queen--Elizabeth I--and her time ruling. It was a really interesting discussion, especially since we both had different aspects of the Tudor era that we love.

Most of my speaking correction came about when we spent the last 15 minutes or so deciding on our next topic. We skimmed several different articles and I had to help define a couple words that Soyoung did not recognize in the article titles. She also used some strange word choices when talking about some personal stories that related to articles we were looking through. Overall, though, she did really well.