A Tale of Two Cities III.9-10

Quiz Blockers Book marks Clear your table Defend your turf. Name on it! When finished, see if you can finish a box in your Unit Guide.

Today Quiz Recap / clarification Theme analysis HW: Read III.11-14 (leaving one chapter left)

Dates June 17: We finish the book. Final quiz. Receive entry ticket. June 19: Packet due. Vocab / Grammar Test. Passage Analysis Test. June 21: ATOTC Seminar Survey Books Due

III.9-10 Recap How and why did Dr. Manette denounce Charles Darnay? Relate the story Dr. Manette tells in his letter as best you can. As you discuss, be sure to identify the role of each of the following characters within the story told through the letter. Also, identify who these characters are outside this story as well. the “elder” twin the “younger” twin the wife of the Marquis St. Evremonde little Charles the sister the younger sister “my husband, my father, my brother”

III.9-10 Recap -Reread the moment in Manette’s story (401-402). -What makes this moment powerful? -What does the broken sword show about the nobility of the time? -Explain the cross of blood and what it shows about the peasants. What mentality do both the boy and the Marquis share?

III.9-10 Recap Return to page 123 (middle of II.6) where Charles tells of the prisoner who wrote DIG. How does this scene make more sense now?  How else has Dickens foreshadowed revelations made in this section? Why is Chapter 10 called “The Substance of the Shadow”?

Themes Dickens explores inequality, injustice, social class, oppression, hatred, and vengeance through the flashbacks in this section in order to deliver some very powerful messages. What are those messages? Which sentences in the text best deliver the impact of those messages? Write a theme statement that Dickens delivers in this section of the reading. Find at least one quote that you feel supports the theme. How has this theme presented itself elsewhere in the novel? Find two more quotes that support it.

Before you go… What does trepidation mean? Which theme resonated most through this section of the book? What is your final?