Reading Schedule

Huck Finn Reading/ Writing Schedule

	Date due	Chapters Read	Mini-Essay Topic
1	11/18	1-3
2	11/22	4-7	Voice and style of the storyteller
3	11/29	8-18	Please note this is DOUBLE the reading, so you are NOT required to write anything.
4	12/1	19-22	Jim and Huck’s relationship
5	12/3	23-28	The Significance of a Minor Character (anyone other than Jim or Huck)
6	12/9	29-33	Directions (N,S,E,W)
7	12/13	33-38	Ethics
8	12/15	39- end	Theme

Instead of writing a final essay on this book, you will write many mini-essays, one for each night that you are reading Huck Finn.  Each mini-essay should be 1-2 pages typed and double spaced.  It should express an opinion on the given topic, as related to the reading, and support that opinion with evidence and analytical commentary from the text. 

Ideally, this frequent writing will give you a chance to explore lots of different ideas and also polish your writing skills.  Sometimes the topic will build off of the previous day’s discussion, inviting you to apply the ideas to a new section of reading, and sometimes it will help to prepare you for the topic of the following class meeting.  The extra special benefit of this is that there will be NO reading or writing assigned over Winter break, since we will have already done all of our reading and writing for Huck Finn.

Because this is a lot of writing, I will not be reading all of your pieces.  I will read approximately 1/3 of the pieces turned in at a time, but not disclose which 1/3 I am reading until everyone has had a piece read.  This means that 1/3 of your pieces will be read by me, but as you don’t know which, it is in your best interest to consistently do your best work.  If your piece is chosen to be read, and if you did not do the piece, you will receive a zero.  Though I will not read all of your pieces, other students will occasionally read your work.