Huckleberry Finn writing assignments for English 11
  

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Monday: Take reading test over Huck Finn. After the test you can work on editing your “moral dilemmas” posts. These have been graded, but you have until midnight tonight to make changes if you want them re-graded. Remove all my html tags when you are finished. I won’t re-read posts that still have my comments and highlights in them.

Note: The highlights are color coded, to give you an idea of what the problem is. The key to the color codes appears in the left-hand column of the Mosaic homepage: “Editing Codes.” The key is also hot linked, so if you click on “Red=Sentence Fragment” you will go to a page that explains what sentence fragrments are and how to fix them.

I retagged all these paragraphs in the category “Huckleberry Finn,” so if you click the category “Huckleberry Finn” in the left column, all these paragraphs will load.

Tuesday: Write a discussion question about Huckleberry Finn--a question that you would like to discuss with your classmates. This should reflect what you have found most interesting about the novel so far. Then write a paragraph in which you give your answer to the question. These need to be edited, spell-checked, and made perfect by midnight tonight (March 7).

Tag your post before you submit. To do this, click the “categories” tab at the top of the publish page, then select the category “Huckleberry Finn”

Also on the publish page, be sure to select the period you are in--there’s a drop-down menu between the title and the body.

Pay particular attention to capitalization and to apostrophes. These should be perfect. Be sure to spell check. You have to click “save changes” after you spell check or the errors won’t be fixed in your post.

Wednesday: Log on to Mosaic. In the lefthand column, click the category “Huckleberry Finn” to bring up all your classmates’ posts. Read and respond to at least three of these--they don’t have to be people who have English the same period you do. Go beyond saying you agree or the post is good or such blather. Respond to the discussion question--share your thoughts about a possible answer. Comments are informal, so you don’t need to get things perfect, but don’t use text messaging abbreviations. Use standard English punctuation and spelling.