My thoughts on NHD

I hated NHD. But then again I feel as though it was my fault for not thinking wisely about what topic to choose. The only good advice I can give to myself is to pick a topic that I'm interested in and that I could get easy access to resources for. The topic I had for this year was General McClellan and the battle of Antietam. That topic was really exciting to learn about but I had no resources to back up the information that I was receiving. On top of all of that all of the information that I received most of it was probably wrong. disorganization was a big part of my not finishing my NHD project. I had to keep switching note books because I kept losing them. It made me so frustrated that three weeks later I would find all of the information in the note book that I probably would have lost in my room somewhere. I should have chosen to work with a team. But I knew no one would want to work with me since mostly every one in the class probably sees me as dead weight. I felt as though working in a team would build up pressure on me because I knew that if their was something that I didn't carry out then my team would get mad at me because I didn't carry out my duties. So the next time around I'm gonna make sure of a couple of things. #1, that I choose a topic that interesting to me and #2 keep my books in my locker until it was time for workshops. Overall NHD was a very stressful experience and I hope that next year I'll be ready and I'll be able to make a good paper so that I can win first place for next year

Should HuckleBerry Finn be Taught in Schools?

I think that HuckleBerry Finn shouldn't be taught in school because it can cause I huge controversy. The first issue I would like to touch on is the issue of judgement. In this book it talks of black people and how the only thing they're good for is magic. But in actuality that isn't true at all. what about the christians who go to church like myself? I certainly don't believe in magic and I'm sure that would be a major outrage in the churches. Because in the bible it says that god forbids the use of witchcraft because it is the work of the devil. This can also be classified as stereotyping. Another issue I would like to address is the problem with grammar in the book. Not only does it make the book hard to read but it is teaching younger and even the older kids to talk like that. But my real concern about this issue is what's going to happen once a second grade teacher tells her students to read a book like that. There grammar would slowly decrease, and it would decrease there ability to spell because some words in the book aren't spelled correctly. What would happen if students were to discuss this book. The kids would say things like "The nigger Jim escaped with the white boy HuckleBerry Finn" I'm pretty sure that something like that would have bad feelings going around. Parents would be completely outraged an it could lead up to protests against schools threatening that if they didn't throw out the book then they would have to shut down. My last reason for why this book should be banned is because of violence. In one part in the book HuckleBerry kills a pig in order to fake his own death. This book could encourage kids to get involved in gangs. In the first couple chapters HuckleBerry and his friends wanted to make a gang. They called there selves the Tom sawyer gang. If I haven't stated enough reasons to banned this book then I don't know what else to say. But these are my opinions and this is why I think the book HuckleBerry Finn should be banned