In first and second hour class today, we were treated to a lesson by Ms. Mielke! She showed us two poems by A.E. Housman and did some reactionary work. The corresponding worksheets were completed in response to these poems and will be emailed to you.
In third hour, we took some time to decipher meaning and shed some light on the ideas presented in chapter one. Notes will be shared with those absent tomorrow.
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY FOR A TALE OF TWO CITIES, CHAPTER ONE:
CHOOSE ONE OF THESE QUOTES TO ANSWER IN 2-3 PARAGRAPHS. Indicate which prompt you are responding to in your emailed or written response. This must be sent NO LATER THAN 11:59pm THIS EVENING TO RECEIVE EXTRA CREDIT POINTS.
A. "All of history is cyclical, and those who do not learn from it
are doomed to repeat it."
Imagine that you are Charles Dickens and have just read this quote.
How do you feel your first chapter of A Tale of Two Cities is setting
the book up to prove this quote correct? What are you hoping your
audience might learn from this setting? Why have you chosen to set
this book in this time period instead of in your present Victorian
time period?
Be sure to support your answer using specific details from your
reading of chapter one.
B. Consider what you read in chapter one. What is this world of 1775
like? How does this time period fit as a good comparison to Victorian
England, 75 years later? How does this setting compare to the society
we live in today, modern day America?
Be sure to support your answer using specific details from your
reading of chapter one.
