“Book the Second: The Golden Thread” 6/16/2018

“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.” 6/16/2018

“Book the Second”: Chapter 1 “Five Years Later” (pp. 53-59) 6/16/2018

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. 6/16/2018

Setting: PLACE “Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar” 6/16/2018

Setting: PLACE “Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar” Is Tellson’s Bank fictional or nonfictional? 6/16/2018

Setting: PLACE Tellson’s Bank is fictional; however, Temple Bar was VERY real. 6/16/2018

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. 6/16/2018

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? 6/16/2018

Essential Question #1: How do authors—particularly Dickens—effectively utilize historical settings, people, and events to create verisimilitude in their own fictional stories? 6/16/2018

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Satire Satire is defined as irony or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity. 6/16/2018

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. 53, explain what problem Dickens is trying to correct through the use of satire in that passage. 6/16/2018

The following definition is to be discussed prior to reading pp The following definition is to be discussed prior to reading pp. 53 through 55 in Chapter I of Book the Second. 6/16/2018

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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. 6/16/2018

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). 6/16/2018

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