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• Continue working on your visual essay project. We will return to the computer lab to complete your in-class essays and/or work on your visual essay project and/or work on your senior thesis.

• Visual essay project--you will present these in class on Thursday.

• Be prepared to write in-class essay: "Is Heart of Darkness Art?" (must engage in conversation with Achebe essay and Conrad readings

• Finish reading Achebe essay (if we don't finish it in class), pages 336-349
• Read Conrad's "Preface...,"  pages 272-282, and "Books," pages 283-286

• Finish reading Heart of Darkness
• Complete worksheet as you read
• Recommended: Get a good start on your journey project by developing your thesis statement and writing some of your body paragraphs

• Read part two of Heart of Darkness
• Complete worksheet as you read

• Finish reading part one of Heart of Darkness
• Complete worksheet (in class or available on website in Senior Handouts folder) as you read

• Nothing! We'll start Heart of Darkness in class. Feel free to be working on your senior thesis!

Nothing for class! You should be working on your senior thesis--don't forget that your prospectus is due on Tuesday to your primary reader.

• Revise one of your Tempest passage analyses and turn in to be graded. (minus 1/2 point out of ten if late) Note: We will be working in the lab this day on either this passage analysis or your senior thesis prospectus, so you can wait to do the passage analysis revision until class if you don't want the time for working on your prospectus. Just know that you will need to turn it by the end of class. The prospectus is due Tuesday, September 29.

• Turn in your Outside Reader Report and Letter to your Primary Reader

• Prepare for Tempest exam (This is an open book, open note exam. The best way to prepare is to review how Caliban is portrayed throughout the play, and take brief notes so you can find specific passages quickly.)
• Turn in revised Left Hand of Darkness Passage Analysis (minus one point out of twenty if late)

• Finish reading The Tempest
• Select a passage of 5-10 lines and write an analysis of it . Note: other people will read your work
• Optional: Update your study guide

• Read Act Three of the The Tempest
• Optional: Update your study guide

• Read Act Two of The Tempest
• Select a passage of 5-10 lines and write an analysis of it (following pattern we'll discuss in class). Note: other people will read your work
• Optional: complete study guide as you read

• Begin work on your research question assignment (see handbook). Bring whatever notes or drafts you have to class.
• Bring your final two-page (ish) essay on LH of D to class if you didn't hand it in on Thursday. Emailing it to me instead of bringing it to class is also fine.

• One page on LH of D (this will make more sense to you after class). Please email this to me before class so I can link it to the website. Thanks!
• Read the research question assignment in your thesis handbook and come to class with any questions you have.