For this meeting I brought Alice in Wonderland with me again, but to keep from just doing one thing the whole time, I brought along several postcards, photos, and an art journal as well. Before reading I pulled out the pictures and went through some of them with Elia. I asked him basic questions like "What do you see in this picture?" or "What does this picture make you think of?" It wasn't the most successful activity as Elia didn't seem to be a huge fan of it, either because it was too difficult or just because he didn't care about what was in the pictures. It took a lot of encouragement just to get short, one-word responses out of him. Also, I sort of felt like some sort of therapist trying to see into his subconscious by asking questions about the photos.. But we toughed through it, and some photos were better than others! There was a mix of subjects in all the photos, including some silly photos of me and my friends, a close up of a praying mantis, and a picture of my dog. Apparently where Elia is from there is an insect similar to a praying mantis that can crawl up your nose and kill you. No word on whether or not that's an urban legend among kids there- I grew up learning almost the opposite, that it's illegal to kill them, which is definitely not true.
But after that exercise, which Elia was definitely not a fan of, we went back to Alice! We did the same thing as last time, switching off paragraph to paragraph and stopping after each one for an explanation.
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