Leaning Literary

* Open

Minimum of 10 words each from three quotes memorized from each card (Lewis and Austen for block day)

* Grammar Question:

Let's look at these together:

2. And Abusage: Possessive case when you noun is singular and already ends in -s:

* Journal Goodness

* Dickens

HW: TTC--7 (checked on block day)

* Open

"But indeed, at that time, putting to death was a recipe much in vogue with all trades and professions, and not least of all with Tellson's. Death is Nature's remedy for all things, and why not Legislation's? Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson's door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death" (Dickens 56).
Rhetoric
Considerations
(Vocabulary later)

* HW: Book 2, Chapters 1-3

* Open

Ch. 5 Passage
" 'Is it possible!' repeated Defarge, bitterly. 'Yes. And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done—done, see you!—under that sky there, every day. Long live the Devil. Let us go on' " (Dickens 39).

* Poetry Glory (share Journal 14)

* Work on J15: Compose one limerick and one clerihew.

* Dickens

HW: Book 1 Journal Due Monday

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Copy and respond for your running journal (Book 1, Ch. 3):
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this" (Dickens 14-15).

* A few poems

* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

HW: TTC -- Ch. 4

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Journal 16, Running Assignment
- For each chapter, hand copy a quotation you think rich, insightful, or nicely composed. Explain the significance of the quote in more than one sentence. List one rhetorical device within the quote. Then find and define one new vocabulary word.
Assignment: copy the following passage:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only" (Dickens 1).

* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

* J14 (Check)

HW: Reading (A Tale of Two Cities)--Finish Book 1 for Monday