Written Assignment for Wednesday

First--apologies for recent erratic posting.  We are on somewhat different class schedules for a variety of reasons, and the blog hasn't been a priority. But I am keeping track, and will do my best to make sure that different-day activities are equalized.  Continue to bring both Tess and the lit book to class, please.  If you have not taken a make-up quiz for last Friday (Phase the Fourth), come in before school on Wednesday--no later than 9:15 or 9:20, please.

IN CLASS ON TUESDAY
Students assessed their own Wordsworth/Dunbar timed writes; yes, 3rd period work took longer because we had not yet assessed the sample essays.
Then we looked at a "practice passage" from Tess--from chapter 20, near the end, when Tess and Angel go out at dawn to bring in the cows for milking. 
First, I asked everyone  (to be continued--I want to post this so people can see it at lunch if necessary) to look at the short paragraph about the light, and then we studied the passage about Tess and Clare going to the pasture at dawn to bring in the cows for the morning milking.  (to be continued)
ASSIGNMENT FOR TOMORROW

Write a short analysis on the following passage, responding to the question posed at the end:
The passage--
Chapter 19 from
"It was a typical summer evening in June . . . .
to
Tess . . . moved . . . as if hardly moving at all."
[5 paragraphs in all]

Analyze--

• Selection of detail
• Figurative language
• Imagery

[note:  "imagery" traditionally refers to sensory language, i.e. related to the five senses--however, you will often see it simply packaged as part of literary devices or even figurative language]

Purpose--
How does the language of this passage help to characterize Tess at this point in the book?