TODAY IN CLASS
Short Quiz on 5-7 of Tess; morphed into the basis (together with some additional questions) for the "what happens" wrap-up.  Close look at the ending which (together with a poem tomorrow) forms the "Hardy's view of the universe" plus how he ultimately sees Tess.  Supplement this with the important hand-out of "random topics."  We've talked much about some; none about others.  There was a second hand-out, this one containing four Question 3 topics for which Tess was listed as a prospective choice.

FOR TOMORROW
Go back to the passage on Thursday's timed write:  this was in the first chapter of Phase the Third, about the last two pages.  Do the following on your own paper:
1) List all of the literary devices you see at work in the passage (whether you wrote about them last week or not) and the actual examples. (this is one aspect of "how")
2) Go back to the question of how the narrator actually sees her--"how" does he characterize the relationship between Tess and her new environment.

We will talk about both and consider varied ways of organizing this essay.

The prompts for Question 3--obviously none of these will be YOUR exact prompts, though sometimes they're recycled in pretty close ways. If you are taking the test, you should think through at least one of these, perhaps two.

BRING THE LIT BOOK AND TESS ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.