WRITING PROMPT TIME. Discuss your favorite “snow day” activity. What do you do outside when the snow piles up and school is called off for the day? Be specific and include a LOT of details. Think about what winter clothing you need, what you will do, etc. Describe! BONUS points if you can use all of these words in your writing (highlight them): weather report, blizzard, boots, mittens or gloves, freezing, snowman, sledding, skating, skiing, snowboarding, hot cocoa. BUT YOUR RESPONSE MUST MAKE SENSE when using these words!

BE SURE TO WRITE AT LEAST TWO PARAGRAPHS (5 sentences each).

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.

What is a mechanism by which organisms maintain homeostasis when the level of one substance influences the level of another substance or the activity of an organ.

If the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn’t die? identify the independent clause. a if the poem is about going mad when love is lost b if love didn't die c what would happen d when love is lost