GarretTS#15

October 21st, Afternoon.

I met again with TaeYuen today to work on his second reading log. The book he chose is called "Stolen Voices," by Ellen Dee Davidson. This book is a bit weird, and the plot was harder for TaeYuen to follow. It is narrated by a young girl named Miri who, at 15 years old, has no talent. In the dystopian society of Noveskian, the city's class system is based on the talent each individual possesses. Each person's talent is revealed at a annual demonstration wherein each person, all of the age of 15, goes onstage and reveals their talent to the people in the crowd. When Miri's name is called, she panics and runs away. Miri has yet to find her talent. And people who are "Untalents" are doomed to a lower-class life. Some of the words that TaeYuen used for the vacuum part of the assignment were: indulgent, chirp, chant, and gilt. After having TaeYuen write his summary on the book, I looked over and edited it for him. He then rewrote it and completed the assignment. We finished at around 7 and as I was finishing up, TaeYuen asked me if I could help him with another assignment, which was a listening log. He also told me that he has a test on phrasal verbs/idiomatic phrases. We we met last night to work on his idiom assignment, he didn't explain to me that it was phrasal verbs. Considering that I had not eaten much all day, I told him that we could meet back at the library at 9:30 to work on the Listening Log together and that I would help him with phrasal verbs.