One week they read their self-assigned articles and write brief commentaries about them. The next week the commentaries are circulated and students make new individual selections based on their peer's recommendations. Or they choose one article to focus on as a class in the coming week. Students choose problems from their own writing to become the focus of lessons. If the teacher plans carefully, the students can dictate parts of the material.
Students bring in sentences they've found for analysis in class.
If you have your own classroom, the log pages can be put on the walls. A student writes the day's plan on the blackboard and opens the class by greeting everyone, calling attention to the plan, and reading through it. Students give directions for an activity. Or students provide closure by writing a sentence or two about what they learned. The student may also write marginal comments to call the teacher's attention to problems.