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Hey Mom, this is what I need
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By Mom, I'm assuming you mean Mike O'neal McCarty.
Your Canon has a 9% center spot meter feature. It also has a AE lock which is by your right thumb indicated with an *.
If you have these features you shouldn't need to use the camera like a hand held light meter as Laura was suggesting. The spot meter effectively reaches out and does this at a distance.
You can practice this feature anytime. Just point the camera at something using the regular matrix metering, make note of the exposure. Now(must be in P mode for the spot metering for your camera I think) set the metering to partial (spot I call it on my Nikon) and point back at the same scene. Pick different areas of the scene, lighter - darker, and notice that the partial meter has created a different exposure based on the light in the center of the viewfinder.
Now, pick an exposure and press the AE lock button and then move the camera. You should notice that the exposure does not change.
If your shooting a face, try pointing your partial meter (center 9% for your camera) to an area of middle value and see if that doesn't give you a good balanced exposure of the face.
Great thing about these cameras is that you can practice and see the results almost immediately.