Ben was hesitant to work today. He told me he was tired and had a long weekend. I allowed him to vent and then we got started. I wrote some review exponent rules on the board: multiplying like bases (we add), dividing like bases (we subtract), and anything raised to the 0 power is 1. Then I gave him some example problems on the board and had him walk me through the solutions. He struggled, but we got through them. Then I gave him an activity to work on independently. He stared at it for a while, but then got to work on it without me asking him. He did great on it. He got few problems wrong, so we went through them together. He understood his mistakes. Next class we will discuss negative exponents and the Power Rule.