Learning Objectives:You will understand background information relative to an author and novel.You will review study guide questions, new vocabulary words, and character charts.You will read chapter one of the text.

Monday, 15 November 2010

Bell-work: Please pick up a handout from the stool on the way to your seat.

Homework:TOTC Chapters 1-3

TOTC Book #1 Study GuideTOTC Character Chart

TOTC Book #1 Vocabulary Chart

Due Today: Ø

Agenda:TOTC Book #1 ~ “Recalled to Life”

Reading ScheduleStudy Guide QuestionsVocabulary ChartBackground InformationTOTC Chapter 1 Reading

Writer’s Notebook #12: Book #1 Plot & Character Chart

Chapter Setting Characters Plot

1“The Period” England

& FranceX

France = Violence & Religious PersecutionEngland = Crime

2“Mail”

English Roads-Mistrust & Crime Jarvis Lorry

Jerry Cruncher

“Wait in Dover for Mam’selle”“Recalled to Life”

3“Night

Shadows”Jarvis Lorry

A Ghost?

Dosing off in the coach, Mr. Lorry dreams of and talks to a man buried alive for 18 years. Night Shadows are ghosts.

English Roads-Travel between London & Paris. A sense of the gothic (dark descriptions, mysterious)

WN #12 11/15/10 Book #1 Plot & Character Chart

Learning Objectives:You will actively read a text by anticipating themes and concepts.You will interpret and apply vocabulary as you read.You will use an online tool to help understand a complex text.

Bell-work: Please open up to WN #12 and get out your TOTC study guide.

Homework:TOTC Book #1 Chapter 5

TOTC Book #1 Study GuideTOTC Book #1 Vocabulary Chart

Due Today:TOTC Chapters 1-3

Agenda:2nd Term Grade DistributionWriter’s Notebook #12: Book #1 Plot & Character ChartTOTC Chapter 4 (30 minutes)

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Plot/Character Chart: Book #1 “Recalled to Life”

Chapter

Setting

Characters

Plot

4 “Preparation”

England - The Dover Hotel

Jarivs Lorry, Lucie Manette, Miss Pross, Jerry Cruncher is further characterized.

Lorry steps out of the coach into the daylight. From darkness to light symbolizes a literal resurrection. He is preparing to tell Lucie & preparing Lucie to meet her father.

Learning Objectives:You will solve analogies.You will identify motifs in a piece of historical fiction and learn more about Dickens.You will interpret and define vocabulary as you read.You will connect characters in our text.

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Bell-work: Please get out your vocabulary workbook and open up to page 131. Begin Analogies Lesson #6.

Homework: TOTC Book #1 Study Guide & Vocabulary Chart due Friday

TOTC Book #2 Chapters 1 – 2

Due Today: TOTC Book #1 Chapters 4 & 5

Agenda:Vocabulary Workbooks: Analogies Lesson #6 pg. 131Writer’s Notebook #12: Book #1 Plot & Character ChartWriter’s Notebook #13: TOTC Background Information ContinuedTOTC Chapter 6TOTC Note CardsTOTC Book #2 Study Guide & Vocabulary Chart

Plot/Character Chart: Book #1 “Recalled to Life”

Chapter

Setting

Characters

Plot

5 “Wineshop”

St. Antoine, France – poor city just outside of Paris, France.

The Defarges & the 3 “Jacques”

The red wine cask that had shattered in the street & the people who flocked to it is one of the most memorable & referenced scenes in the book. The red stained hands symbolize the bloodshed to come 14 years in the future. Want, need, poverty, suffering, and hunger are all around.

What is Serial Writing?

• Basically, a serial is an ongoing story not much different from the format of a contemporary soap opera.

• Just as "Days of Our Lives" gives the viewer a story that runs on in daily, manageable bites, serial stories break a story down into segments, keeping the reader coming back for more.

• TOTC was originally published in weekly installments that lasted from April to November of 1859.

• Serial stories provide people with a depth of story that can't be achieved in a short story.

• At the same time, it provides deeper stories in small, easily digestible chunks.

• Dickens’ attempt was to create a popular story full of suspense and intrigue that leaves many questions after the first few chapters. Some of the questions, like how Mme. Manette’s father came to be incarcerated for 18 years.

• It takes patience to get through, but is ultimately very rewarding.

WN #13 11/17/10 TOTC Background cont.

A note on the Dickensian writing style …

• Much of what Dickens wrote is considered to be gothic literature.

• Gothic literature is a genre that establishes an uneasy, mysterious mood through the use of remote, desolate settings, supernatural or macabre events, and violence.

• Gothic literature dominated much of fiction from the late eighteenth century through the end of the nineteenth century.

The Route Between England & FranceTwentieth-century travelers have been able to make the one-way trip between London and Paris in just under six hours: they take a train from London to Dover, where they board a ferry on the 21-mile across the choppy English Channel to Calais. From there, they take a train to Paris. Since 1994, however, passengers can cut their travel time to a mere three hours by riding on a high-speed train through a tunnel beneath the English Channel, popularly known as the Chunnel. What would Jarvis Lorry and his traveling companions think if they were to see the Chunnel train hurtling through the country side at a starling 185 miles per hour?

TOTC Motifs

• Resurrection• Violence & Oppression• Self Sacrifice & Heroism• Revolutions• Doubles & Opposites• Shadows & Darkness• Imprisonment & Freedom

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Hallmarks of Dickensian Style• Parallelism: In grammar, parallelism is a

balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses. The application of parallelism in sentence construction improves writing style and readability. Parallelism may also be known as parallel structure or parallel construction.

• Anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.

Jacques & Jacquerie• During a conversation in the wineshop, M. Defarge

and three other men all refer to each other as “Jacques.” This identifies them as fellow revolutionaries. It is a password of sorts. The name is contemptuous The name comes from Jacques Bonhomme (Goodman James) a name the peasants used in contempt to refer to the novels in a French revolt in 1358. Therefore, “Jacquerie” is the term applied to any revolt of French peasants.

Plot/Character Chart: Book #1 “Recalled to Life”

Chapter

Setting

Characters

Plot

6 “Shoemaker”

Dr. Manette

In the garret of the wineshop, the prisoner is reunited with his daughter. He appears to has lost his identity. He recalls his own names as being 105 North Tower. The locks of golden hair of Lucie offer him some memory. His reaction is genuine. Lucie’s is a little unbelievable. Lorry & Defarge arrange for them to leave. He steps out from the garret into the day; from darkness to light.

St. Antoine, France – poor city just outside of Paris, France.

Learning Objectives:You will identify motifs in a piece of historical fiction.You will learn more about Charles Dickens and his writing style.You will interpret and define vocabulary as you read.You will connect characters in our text.

Friday, 19 November 2010

Bell-work: Please get ready to turn in your study guide questions for Book #1

Homework:TOTC Book #2 Chapters 3 - 4

Due Today: TOTC Book #1 Study Guide

Agenda:Writer’s Notebook #14: TOTC Book #2 Plot & Character ChartTOTC Book #2 Chapter 3

Plot/Character Chart: Book #2 “The Golden Thread”

ChapterSettingCharacters

Plot

1 “Five Years Later”Tellson’s Bank, Cruncher Apartment

The Crunchers: Jerry Sr., Jerry Jr., Wife• Tellson’s Bank is described as being small, dark, ugly

and grave-like. Mud is splattered on the windows and it is damp, but it is respectable.

• Jerry Cruncher (bank employees) are getting ready at home to run errands together, and his wife is praying for him. Jerry gets angry and throws a boot at her. A domestic dispute ensues.

• Something to remember … Jerry’s boots are muddy at night, and his son notices his rusty colored hands.

Plot/Character Chart: Book #2 “The Golden Thread”

Chapter

Setting

Characters

Plot

2 “A Sight”Old Bailey – Criminal Court in central London; near the Thames River & Temple Bar

Prisoner Charles Darnay, An Eager Crowd, Barristers, Jarvis Lorry, Lucie (22) & Dr. Manette

• Darnay (a handsome man of 25) is on trial for treason (spying for the French King) – a crime punishable by quartering.

• The crowd is eager to see him found guilty, and to see the violent execution. The case is an example of sensationalism.

• Barristers are in black robes & white wigs.• Darnay sees two men & a woman enter the courtroom

(Lorry, Lucie, and Dr. Manette). He learns they are witness for the prosecution. He sees terror and compassion in her eyes.

Plot/Character Chart: Book #2 “The Golden Thread”Chapter Setting

Characters

Plot

3 “A Disappointment” Old Bailey

Darnay, The Crowd, The Jury, Barristers, Jarvis Lorry, Lucie & Dr. Manette, Attorney General (prosecuting attorney), John Barsard, Mr. Stryver (defense attorney), Roger Cly, Sydney Carton

• The Attorney General encourages the jury to find the prisoner guilty and to have hatred towards him. He urges them to find him guilty.

• The Attorney General calls the first witness, John Barsard, to the stand. Barsard is a patriot who felt obligated to turn in Darnay.

• Mr. Stryver exposes that Barsard served time in a debtor’s prison, so his testimony is unreliable.

• The Attorney General calls forward Robert Cly to testify. Cly was Darnay’s former servant and claims he witnessed Darnay deliver information to Frenchmen.

• Mr. Stryver exposes Cly as a fraud because he has stolen in the past. His proves him to be untrustworthy.

• Jarvis Lorry is called forward, but claims that he cannot say definitively that Darnay was in the coach as he traveled to France or when traveling back from France.

• A terrified Lucie is called to the stand. She admits meeting the prisoner on the ship coming from France. She explains that he helped her with her sick father. She turns the court against Darnay because of comments he made supporting the American revolution, but also showed that he had kindness & compassion.

• Dr. Manette is called to the stand, but has no recollection of having met Darnay due to his illness.

• As Mr. Stryver is cross examining someone, Sydney Carton ( an assistant) approaches to give him a note. Carton looks strikingly like Darnay and the jury notices.

• Their physical similarities put the question of reasonable doubt in the mind of the jurors. They return with the verdict: an acquittal.

Plot

Characters in TOTC through Book #2 Chapter 7

• Jarvis Lorry• Jerry Cruncher• Lucie Manette• Ms. Pross• Mme. Defarge• Mr. Defarge• Dr. Manette• Jerry Cruncher Jr.

• Mme. Cruncher• Charles Darnay• John Barsad• Mr. Stryver• Roger Cly• Sydney Carton• Monseigneur• Mr. Gaspard