Today we started with our draft Reading Log for Writing to Describe. 

We then did our DLR (Daily Language Review) Week 1, Monday.

We then watched "The Lost Thing" and started making a Describing Web for it. 

​ABSENT: KD, AO, LW
SUBMITTED: Draft Reading Log 1, DLR 1 (Week 1, Monday).
HANDOUTS: Web for "The Lost Thing"

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

Today we did our first silent reading day with a draft reading log that Mr. Nordstrom is still working on. We then did Day 1 of our Daily Language Review. Finally, we watched the entirety of "The Lost Thing," which we will be using to start our "Writing to Describe" unit.

SUBMITTED: DLR 1, Reading Log 1.
STILL WORKING ON: Descriptive web for "The Lost Thing"

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

W worked on the "Fear" writeup last block, but we didn't finish it or hand it in. 

Today we started reading "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." Students received a Fluency Log for it. We finished Scene 2 of the teleplay and Chunk 1 of the Fluency Log.

HANDOUTS: Reading Log 1.1.1 (What's Important and  Why), Fluency Log for "Monsters."
ABSENCES: None

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

​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

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

For our first day of Writing 7, we read through the course outline and started filling in a "Student Survey" sheet that we will use for data in order to describe ourselves next week. 

Handouts: Student survey (submitted at the end of class.)

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