Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Today's Work
- Meet with THREE peers not in your group!
- Highlight points that you agree with a different color for each peer.
- Add your reflection about your agreement/disagreement for each question.
- Place a key at the bottom of your questions that designates which color represents each peer.
- Submit your completed document in Canvas.
- Analyze the title of the story “Sweat.” How does the title comment upon the theme of the story?
- Why does Delia continue to stay with a husband who abuses her?
- How do the community members react to Sykes’s treatment of Delia?
- How does Delia’s discovery of Sykes’s bullwhip foreshadow what is to come later in the story?
- When Delia finally stands up to Sykes and tells him to leave her house, how does he react? Why doesn’t he carry through with his threats to hurt her?
- Why does Delia not attempt to save Sykes? Do you think she will later have regrets?
Quote of the Day
If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?