Today students started the block with silent reading (WIAW 1.1.3)​.

We then finished viewing the original version of The Monsters are Due on Maple Street and submitted our Fluency Logs based on it. We also viewed the updated version. 

I assigned the "Fear writeup" that we started on the first day for homework, due on Monday the 16th. The question was,

• What makes something worth being afraid of?

Today students received a new Reading Log (WIAW 1.1) (block 8), and the students in blocks 1 and 4 were on day 1.2 of a What's Important and Why log.

We then continued working through "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" with our first Fluency Log. The question for the Quick Write on the Fluency Log is:

• The story tells you the moral at the end. How much of it do you agree with, and why/how?

Students need to submit their Fluency Logs by next class. We've started viewing the actual episode as well.

Today we did our Silent Reading (WIAW 1.1.1) and then worked through the first section of "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street."

No Absences.
Handout: "Monsters" Fluency Log

Today we read through the course outline and discussed class expectations. After that, we started with this response on a separate sheet of paper, but I didn't feel like we were getting far, so we moved on.

We started reading "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" together. I handed out a Fluency Log for it, but we didn't quite get to Chunk 1.

STARTED: ​Fear response, "Monsters are Due on Maple Street" Fluency Log