Tale of Two Cities

Capitalistic competition, during Victorian times, was an emerging entity in the world. Through literature, Dickens often portrays characters, or individuals, that cherish greed and self-accomplishment over a group, or even societal goal. In many cases, Dickens' perspective often had the two things opposed, an individuals greed vs. societal advancement.


Do you agree or disagree? Explain why using modern day examples.

What in the Dickens is this?

In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, our characters are dealing with the effects of war, and civil chaos amongst an ever changing world. The effects are startling. People mistreating other people based on the side in which they are standing. Thus, the question:

• How can people commit evil deeds, even murder, towards others w/o feeling ashamed or awful about the deed they imposed on another?

Possible helping thoughts are:

• Motivation- what could it be?
• Separation of emotion from action. How could that happen?
• What emotional state must one be in to be able to hurt others?

Chapters 12 and 13

Please post an original quote, one not used by anther classmate, from the reading. Place your quote in quotation marks, along with the page number using MLA format.

Select a passage that you believe is the most important of the chapter in how it reveals:

1. Gene's change and/or development,
2. a theme
3. a symbol

Be able, willing and ready to share your quote.
Respond to at least one other person's posted text by stating what you believe to be the importance of their quote.
Bring quote, and response to another person's quote to class tomorrow for credit and a group activity.

Quotation for Chapter 11

Please post an original quote, one not used by anther classmate, from the reading. Place your quote in quotation marks, along with the page number using MLA format.

1. Please select a passage that you believe is the most important of the chapter in how it reveals a theme, or topic of theme. Be able, willing and ready to share your quote, and be able to relate the quote to the insight in life of the novel.
2. Respond to at least one other person's posted text by stating what you believe to be the thematic importance of their quote.
3. Bring quote, and response to another person's quote to class tomorrow for credit and a group activity.

Vocab Quiz Friday- Unit 4

Quotation Bank

Please post a quote from the reading. Place your quote in quotation marks, along with the page number using MLA format.

Topic of quotation MUST relate to theme. Be able, willing and ready to share your quote, and be able to relate the quote to the insight in life of the novel.

Homework- Monday October 27, 2008

Important Quotation
Please post a quote from the reading that is scheduled on your sheet, along with page number. Explain why the quote is important to the meaning of the text, IE, the insight into life it reveals through characters, conflicts and situations.

Paragraph must be posted and be typed and brought to class. Make sure your paragraph is free of personal pronouns and states the topic of them before you introduce the quote. For example, if your quote surrounds the theme of friendship you would begin your paragraph with an authentic definition, your own words not Webster's, of that word as it relates to the text. Follow the strutcute of broad-to-specific.

Quotation Bank- Chapter 7

Please follow the same procedure as last time and post your quotation to the blog, along with page number, for class tomorrow.