Assignment for Tomorrow--Read to the End of the Post!

And don't forget--Written Practice Exam on Wednesday Morning:  7:30 SHARP to 9:30.

TODAY IN CLASS
1. Super short "quizlet" over Tess, Parts 3-5.
2.  Finished Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and a quick perusal of Thomas Hardy's "Hap"  (big lit book)
3. Moved on to Hardy's use of setting:
Focus one:  the nocturnal walks in the woods (last 3 paragraphs of Ch. 13).  3rd did this yesterday, 1st did this today, and 2nd started to, but no one was forthcoming.  I did not fill the gap.  Tomorrow, 2nd.

Focus two:  Three samples from Phase the Third (realize that these are samples only, and could be drawn from points throughout the novel).

• Chapter 16, opening of Phase the Third:  "On a tyme-scented, bird-hatching morning in May, between two and trhee years after the return from Trandtridge--silent, reconstructive years for Tess Durbeyfield--she left her home for the second time."
• Chapter 20, opening sentence:  "The season developed and matured.  Another year's instalment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches, and such ephemeral creatures took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles.  Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings."
• Chapter 24, opening sentence:  "Amid the oozing fatness and warm ferments of the Froom Vale, at a season whem the rush of juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fertilization, it was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate.  the ready bosoms existing there were impreganated by their surroundings."    [Now read the next paragraph; this time, just to make sure you "get it," Hardy makes an explicit connection with what Clare was feeling.]

FOR TOMORROW--Focus Three
Now look a passage in Chapter 20.  Counting carefully, begin at paragraph 7:  "The grey half-tones of daybreak are not the grey half-tones of the day's close, . . .  Continue until 3 paragraphs up from the end of the chapter.  Stop with the sentence that says  "Tess then lost . . . .and was again . . .the dairymaid only, who had to hold her own against the other women of the world."  (If you get to Dairyman Crick in the next sentence, you've gone too far!)

1) Annotate this passage carefully for detail, diction, allusion, imagery, and anything else you might notice.
2) Now write two different thesis statemests (preferably type them--if you write by hand, be very neat with very dark ink)
a) Simply write the thesis statement in response to the straightforward task "Identify the tone of the passage and show how it is achieved."
b) Write the thesis statement in response to the question "How does the passage shape Clare's view of Tess?" (which is, I guess, essentially asking how the passage reveals how Clare regards Tess).