On 8/23/2021, Alan Huang, Jasmine Chen, Tommy Haotian Tang, and Jessica Albrecht of AYLUS Syosset and two members of AYLUS Manhasset held the forty-second collaborative Chinese Literature Appreciation class, tutoring 5th-grade Chinese-school students to appreciate a Chinese Classic– ”Journey to the West”–through reading, analysis, and discussion.
The class was held in four breakout rooms, with two tutors working independently in each room to teach one to two students, The Ponddy Reader application was utilized as the educational tool through which tutors taught students. Each class and breakout room are targeted towards students’ skill levels and will go at a slower or faster pace to accommodate students’ needs. intensive learning, with non-stop reading, paraphrasing, discussion, and pronunciation correction, happened in all breakout rooms. The students enjoyed the challenges and the steep learning curve. Tutors also prepared short vocabulary word presentations and quick videos. The lesson breakout rooms lasted one hour and were followed by a short discussion.
