American Literature
4 December 2017
Objective: To review
the main events from the first third of the novel. (STANDARD RL.1, RL.2)
Success Criteria: Students
will show mastery by working with a table partner to answer all Discussion
Questions from the Week #1 packet.
Agenda:
1. SSR
– 20 min
2. Discuss
Divergent Ch. 8-10 – 20 min
3. Group
work time to discuss Discussion Questions by Chapter (Week 1) – 20 min
4. Practice
SAT passage – 13 min
5. Individual
reading time – 20 min
Assessment: Table partner
discussions on Week 1 Questions
Homework: Divergent Chapters
11-13 p. 118-166
AP
English Literature and Composition
4
December 2017
WOD: ostentatious (adjective): characterized by or given to
pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others; intended to
attract attention
EX: “‘Now, don’t let my announcement of the name make you uncomfortable,
Sydney,’ said Mr. Stryver, preparing him with ostentatious friendliness for the
disclosure he was about to make…” (Dickens 141).
Student Learning Objective: To
further explore the social injustices in France between the rich and the poor
and to consider Dickens’ intentions for writing the novel in this way. (STANDARD
RL.5)
Success Criteria: Students
will show mastery by looking at Chapter 7 through a Marxists lens and having
relevant table partner discussions.
Agenda:
1. Discuss Book the
Second, Chapters 5-8
2. Introduce Book
the Second, Chapters 9-13
Assessment: Class
Discussion Questions BTS, Ch. 5-8
1.
II, 5: What is the relationship between the
so-called “Jackal” and the “Lion”?
2.
II, 6: What do the “Hundreds of People” and the
“echoing footsteps” represent/foreshadow?
3.
II, 7: How does Dickens use sarcasm to introduce
Monseigneur the Marquis?
4.
II, 7: Why had Monseigneur taken his sister from
a convent and married her off (below her social status) to a very rich
Farmer-General?
5.
II, 7: The accident? The coin? The knitting?
II, 7: In Chapter 7, the Marquis thought of the peasants as rats and dogs, and here he addresses the road-mender as “pig” (115). Why is his rudeness ironic here?
II, 7: In Chapter 7, the Marquis thought of the peasants as rats and dogs, and here he addresses the road-mender as “pig” (115). Why is his rudeness ironic here?
6.
II, 8: How does the road-mender respond when the
Marquis asked, “What did you look at, so fixedly?” (115)?
7.
II, 8: How does Chapter 8 confirm a connection
between Charles Darnay and the Marquis?
Homework: A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Second Chapters 9-13 p. 119-155 (36 pages)
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