Today was a work block. Students worked on their Great Question essays. They're due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Today we started the class with Reading Log 1.2.2 (Questions).

Students then had a chance to continue working on their Great Question essays, which are due on Monday, September 16. 

ABSENT: TH

Today, students received a new Reading Log (Questions 1.2.1).

We then spent some time setting up our Great Questions essays on Google Docs, following the MLA format.

The essay is due on Monday, September 16. 

Today we started the class with a Reading Log, 1.1.4 (Questions). 

Then, for Anticipatory Bell Work Day 3 (1.1.3), we discussed "synecdoche and metonymy." 

Then we went over the outline for the following assignment:

We decided it's due on Monday, September 16, and that I will want to see a completed outline by the end of tomorrow's block (September 11).

UPCOMING: Great Question Assignment due September 16
ABSENT: OS

Today we did day 1.1.3 of our Questions Reading Log. We then spent the block working through the Bleep chapter with a Fluency Log.

LATE: OQ (2 mins)
SUBMITTED: Bleep​ Fluency Log

Reading Log 1.1.2 (Questions).

Anticipatory Bell Wrok 1.1.2: (open-ended questions)

We then finished the Chunk 1 of the first Bleep chapter, although we didn't get through Chunk 2 for the Fluency Log

No new handouts, but Chunk 1 of the Fluency Log is done.
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ABSENT: TH

Today we had a shorter block because the bells were a bit wonky. We started the class by getting a new Reading Log (Questions, 1.1). We then did Day 1 of an Anticipatory Bell Work sheet based on "Stormy Night."

We then started a Fluency Log for the Bleep chapter, but we didn't even get finished Chunk 1.

HANDOUTS: Reading Log 1 (Questions), Anticipatory Bell Work 1, Day 1. Fluency Log (not even finished Chunk 1)

ABSENT:​ CF, OS

Today, in Composition 11, we read the course outline and started reading the first chapter to the What the Bleep do we Know passage. I repeat, I do not endorse the Bleep book or its ideologies, but I do like to use the passage to start my year.

Handouts: Course outline.
First Activity: We started filling out an MLA format response about "What makes a good question?" We submitted it.

Absences or Lates:​ None