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Writing Practice and Assignments
Here are pages for you to download to practice writing hiragana, katakana, and kanji. When printing out the practice pages, you may need to size the output to fit the page.
Also here are all your writing assignments, all dates that hiragana, katakana, and kanji are introduced, and all reading assignments.
But remember you have lots of other assignments: see the main schedule page for the complete listing.
9/10
Hiragana a~so
Illustration of a~so 1
Illustration of a~so 2
Practice pages: COPY THE SECOND LINE:HANDWRITTEN STYLE.
Practice a~ko Practice sa~to
practice hiragana a-so
9/13
Hiragana ta~ho
Illustration of ta~ho 1
Illustration of ta~ho 2
Practice pages: COPY THE SECOND LINE: HANDWRITTEN STYLE
Practice na~ho
write kana sheet (1)
lab 9/13, 9/14
hiragana review a~ho
kana sheet (1) due 
9/15
Hiragana ma~n
Illustration of ma~wa 1
Illustration of ma~wa 2
wa~wo~n illustration
Practice pages: COPY THE SECOND LINE: HANDWRITTEN STYLE
Practice ra~n
 
9/20
All hiragana combinations, explained.
lab 9/20, 9/21
Hiragana quiz a~ho
9/22
Review hiragana (also see the PDF from 9/20 on all hiragana combinations)
lab 9/27, 9/28
Hiragana: Review these PDFs: all combinations; all combinations with explanations.
 
10/4
Ch 2 Reading
 
lab 10/4, 10/5
Hiragana quiz ma~n through glides
kana sheet (3)
11/1
katakana a~so (89-91)
Illustration of katakana a~so (adult)
Illustration of katakana a~so (kids)
Katakana practice a~so
 
11/5
katakana ta~ho
Illustration of katakana ta~ho (adult)
Illustration of katakana ta~ho (kids)
Katakana practice ta~ho
 
lab 11/8, 11/9
Katakana quiz (a~so); katakana ma~n
Illustration of katakana ma~ro (adult)
Illustration of se, su, n (adult)
Illustration of katakana ma~ro;
wa, wo, and n (kids)
Katakana practice ma~n
Paper (squares with center anchor marks) for practicing either katakana or kanji
lab 11/15, 11/16
katakana quiz ta~ho
 
11/24
katakana quiz ma~n
 
lab 11/29, 11/30
transcribing katakana; Reading (Ch 5)
 
lab 12/6, 12/7
katakana quiz a~n
 

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