February 28

Homework

• Writing Minutes 
• Freewriting (I would have won the race had it not been for that boy and his obsession with mashed peas.)
• Add a conclusion paragraph to your Saturn essay.

February 14

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting 
• Finish Saturn Essay
• Finish writing (Remember dress-ups, openers, topic & concluding sentences)
• Add introductory paragraph
• Background information
• Mention topics
• Any very interesting facts that you might not have been able to find a place for elsewhere in your composition.

February 7

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting ("I'd just like to know how you got the car on the roof.")
• Final Draft of Narrative Summary (if necessary)
• Inca Paragraph (if necessary)
• Outline and begin writing about Saturn. (Go only as far as you can in your 100 minutes.  You are not expected to complete this assignment this week!)

January 31

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (There are 800 penguins running around my front yard!)
• Summary Final draft (if necessary)
• Inca paragraphs (Remember to include your dress-ups, openers, topic sentences, and concluding sentences!)

January 24

Because of the slippery roads yesterday, co-op was cancelled.  Use your writing time this week to continue working on previous assignments.  Please check the gradebook (you and/or your parents should have been sent a link) for missing assignments---especially Writing Minutes!  Any completed writing can be emailed to me.

January 17

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (When I went to get the results of my blood test, I was told the results were classified.)
• Final Draft of your Narrative Summary (if you still need to hand that in)
• 3 volcanoes paragraphs (if you still need to hand that in)
• Inca notes (Inca Source).  We will use your notes to complete a class outline next week

I.  Religion

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II.  Lifestyle

   1.  farmers / hand tools / irrigation

   2.  clothes / wool & cotton / decorated / rank

   3.

   4.

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   6. 

III.  Transportation

   1.  network / roads / linking / empire

   2.  llamas / carried / goods

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January 10

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting ("I demand to speak to a human!" he shouted.)
• 3rd Draft Narrative Summary
• Add topic and concluding sentences to each of your paragraphs in your volcano essay. (This should me somewhat easier to do than our practice in class as you know exactly what information is contained in each of your paragraphs!) Here is a link to the handout from class just in case yours didn't make it home. :-)