Whenever you are given a passage with two characters, you, of course, want an understanding of each's characterization: the shamed, humble, wanting to please, colloquial-sprouting Elizabeth Jane with the agitated, cold, judgmental, trying-to-erase-his-poor-past Henchard. While that is well and good, you also have the secondary component: the complex relationship between them. Many of you adjoined a Marxist lens to this piece with the divide of dialects, the past and present social standings of each person, and the behaviors representative of a mayor and a worker bee. To further justify these findings, and for any prompt like this in the future, keep your eye peeled for dialogue (diction, tone, other verbal devices), body language (placement, movement, comparisons), and juxtaposing behaviors (physical and emotional). Yes, the narrator's point of view will give you plenty of fodder for writing this prompt, but by focusing on the characters and what they are doing - especially in those little details - you will have an even greater sophisticated analysis.
As we work with Wuthering Heights and its juxtaposing characters, settings, and narrators, practice identifying those aforementioned literary elements and how they create the characters and their relationships. I would love to say that we will have the entire novel finished by the end of the quarter, but we probably will not, or at least not have true class analysis. However, we're going to do our best with the first half to continue with what a prose passage will most likely ask you to accomplish.
Back to evaluating. I miss hard copies and having the ability to evaluate 20-28 (my record with free response) essays per hour. Typing out all of these comment boxes first on AP Classroom, then on your Google form, then recording in SIS takes a lot more time! This is just an inconvenience, not a problem, so I will curb my complaint at that. A rabbi on the Today Show a few weeks ago talked about mental outlooks and how to classify what is happening right now as an inconvenience or a problem to better address life's circumstances. For example, an inconvenience would be having your meeting suddenly stop due to wifi not connecting. A problem would be your furnace not working and being unable to heat your home when it is below freezing. Don't know if that helps or not, but when I'm in the middle of a catharsis regarding school and what needs to be done or what is happening in the world, or I just feel overwhelmed with the redundancy of my daily life, I try to recognize that a lot of it is inconvenience in my world. Best to all of you. Even if you have genuine problems in your life, remember that there are people who support and love you and want to be that ear to listen to you and offer aid.
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