Transcript Journal Entries for A Tale of Two Cities

“Book the Second:
The Golden Thread”
“Book the Second:
The Golden Thread”
By the time you have read to the
end of Book the First, you should
have no problem identifying who
“The Golden Thread” is. Write
that character’s name beside the
title of “Book the Second.”
“Book the Second”: Chapter 1
“Five Years Later”
(pp. 53-59)
Setting: TIME
Determine from the title of the
chapter what the time setting of
this chapter is. Write that year in
the white space of the page.
Setting: PLACE
“Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar”
Setting: PLACE
“Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar”
Is Tellson’s Bank fictional or
nonfictional?
Setting: PLACE
Tellson’s Bank is fictional;
however, Temple Bar was VERY
real.
Book the Second, Chapter 1
“The Golden Thread” p. 53
Temple Bar:
an arched gateway
to London where
the government
sometimes
displayed the heads
of the executed.
Dickens juxtaposes a fictional
element (Tellson’s Bank) with a
nonfictional element (Temple Bar).
Which of the five Essential
Questions on your unit organizer
does this knowledge help you
address?
Essential Question #1:
How do authors—particularly
Dickens—effectively utilize
historical settings, people, and
events to create verisimilitude in
their own fictional stories?
Satire
Satire is defined as irony
or caustic wit used to
attack or expose folly, vice,
or stupidity.
Satire—The Reformer’s Tool
Targeted Standard: RD-H-1.0.1 Analyze the effect of theme, conflict and resolution,
symbolism, irony, analogies, and figurative language (satire).
After reading the first two
paragraphs on p. 46, explain
what problem Dickens is
trying to correct through the
use of satire in that passage.
The following definition is to be
discussed prior to reading pp. 48
through 52 in Chapter I of Book
the Second.
Book the Second—Chapter 1, p. 56
Black humor:
Grim humor created by the use
of morbid and grotesque
situations which often deal with
suffering, anxiety, and death.
A Truly “Odd” Job
Dickens’ narrator provides the following hints
(foreshadowing) of Jerry Cruncher’s “second” profession:
1. If “recalling to life” came into fashion, Jerry would be in a
“Blazing bad way” (11).
2. Jerry’s boots are clean when he goes to bed; however they are
“covered with clay” (56) when he wakens.
3. Jerry is “exceedingly red-eyed and grim” (57) when he wakens,
which implies that he has not had a good night’s sleep.
4. The narrator tells us that Jerry “issued forth to the occupation
of the day” (58).
5. Young Jerry wonders why his father’s fingers “is al-ways
rusty” (59).