September 28

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (Sometimes they would leave and come back to find the room had been rearranged.)
• Add a excellent introductory and concluding paragraphs to your Maya essay

September 21

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (Time travel was all fun and games until one of us got lost.)
• Use your outline to compose the three paragraph body of your Maya essay.

September 14

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting ("I'm so sorry I can't give you a less dangerous solution.")  
• Do this if you need extra writing minutes 
• Create an outline for a 5 paragraph expository essay.  Use the source given to you in class.

September 7

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (The phone rings.  The voice on the other end says, "We need you again," and hangs up.)  
• Do this if you need extra writing minutes 
• Write an essay (whatever you think an essay is) about any topic you choose (This can be fiction or non-fiction, serious or humorous). I am not expecting you to complete your pre-writing and an entire essay; my design is to determine how far you can get in your writing process in the 150 minutes you have been given.  Your essay, or part of an essay, will be graded simply pass (you turned it in) or fail (you didn’t turn it in). 
• Writing Expectations can be found here.