Student Assignment Instructions ATLEAST 3 PARAGRAPHS!! DUE IN 3 HOURS Respond to the following in the form of a short essay. Your essay should consist of at least five paragraphs.
Charles Dickens’s Hard Times is a novel divided into three books. These books are titled “Sowing,” “Reaping,” and “Garnering.” Explain how each book’s title relates to the events, characters, and themes that Dickens addresses in it, and analyze how the novel’s three sections convey Dickens’s central message about rationality and logic in mid-nineteenth-century England.
Cite specific examples from the novel in your response. Use the notes you take in the Reading Guide and the questions you answer in both the Reading Guide and the Student Guide to help you formulate your response.
You will hand in your completed response on the final day of this unit.