Tonight's essay instructions in case you've lost the sheet . . .

TODAY IN CLASS

• Returned the Keats/Longfellow timed write; went over the Chief Reader's account
• Briefly returned the Cardinal Wolsey speech for students to self-score, using the real AP rubric for that prompt.  Scored and returned in class.  

Students quickly assessed and annotated the "Century Quilt" prompt--general surprise that the particular essay read aloud had not received an upper-half score.  Students wrote a thesis (individually) and compared them in groups.

I handed out a prose passage from George Eliot's Middlemarch ("Question 2"); it's the longest I ever recall seeing, but recent enough that it could easily happen again.  Try to find just a few minutes before class tomorrow to READ and lightly mark; how long did it take?  How long (out of 40 minutes) would be worthwhile spending on this prompt?  Can you get a handle on how to respond to the prompt?

FOR TOMORROW (tonight, really)

The Crime and Punishment Epilogue assignment.  Be sure to utilize all the guidelines in the hand-out. 

You should have it, but it's also available here  .

If you've done that . . . be reviewing Tess, especially by thinking how the book is like/unlike C and P. Someone said the other day that she wished the endings for these protagonists could have been swapped. 

Do you agree?

I am too hungry to proceed right now, but I may link a couple of things to this post later on. (Will be of value tonight only to those who have finished the short C and P essay!)