Step 3: For each of the sentences below, select the choice that has correct punctuation, mechanics, and word use. If the original sentence is correct as it is, select "no change."

		1. John Steinbeck's most famous books are about the lives problems and dreams of working people.
		2. Born in Salinas California, Steinbeck populated many of his novels with people who moved to California looking for a better life.
		3. Steinbeck's father had owned land in the Salinas Valley, and Steinbeck worked as a farm hand when he was young.
		4. Some novels by Steinbeck were set during a period when millions of people would loose their jobs.
		5. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck wrote about migrant workers, these were workers who traveled to wherever they could find work.
		6. In order to find work harvesting wheat: huge numbers of men traveled around the country between the 1880s and the 1930s.
		7. When Steinbeck published Of Mice and Men, many of the jobs were gone for one major reason "a substantial amount of America's grain was harvested by machines called combine harvesters."
		8. During the 1930s (a period called The Great Depression) many people in the U.S. were out of work, so the government set up agencies to find work for farm workers.
		9. Two of the characters in Of Mice and Men "George and Lennie" get work from one of those agencies.
		10. An old man I know once said to me, People who lived through that time will never forget it.
		Step 4: Now that you have practiced recognizing and correcting punctuation, mechanics, and word use, think about a book, story, or article you have read, or a movie, TV program, or play you have seen that made you feel something. Perhaps it made you feel sad, amused, sympathetic, repelled, excited, or angry. Then write a paragraph in the box below about your feeling from what you read or saw. After you finish, check to make sure your punctuation, mechanics, and word use are correct. Make a mental note of any errors you made so that you can give them extra attention in your future writing.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.
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