1. Stages of the French Revolution
Estates General
Meeting of Estates Generals: Louis XVI assembled to solve the financial crisis. First Estate (Clergy), Second estate (nobility), Third Estate (peasants)

2. Tennis Court Oath
Tennis Court Oath: June 1789, Third Estate declared themselves the National Assembly and pledged to write a new constitution

3. Storming of the Bastille
Storming of the Bastille: stormed the bastille (fort and prison) on July 14, They took gunpowder and it signaled the start of the revolution.

4. March on Versailles
March on Versailles: October 5, 1789, seven thousands women marched 12 miles from Paris to Versailles (the winter palace) to demand break from the king. He promised to give them bread but never did

5. Reign of Terror Guillotine
Execution: guillotine, used for the majority of executions during the Reign of Terror. During two years, 40,000 were executed, mostly by guillotine. Robespierre was taken to guillotine for his part in all the treason

6. Crowning of Napolean
Coronation of Napoleon: he ruled as dictator and emperor for 15 years ( ). He stopped revolutionary reforms such as free speech and press, but maintained moderate reforms such as abolishment of feudal privileges

7. Executions during French Revolution

8. Charles Dickens bio
Popular in his own time
Father sent to the debtors’ prison when Charles was 12 (for 3 years)
Dickens gained a fascination with prisons and the poor during this time
Born Born and raised in England

9. Tale of Two Cities Chapter reviews
Setting: Paris, France
London, England between

10. Chapter 1 Parallel structure: England vs. France symbols
Louis XVI (16)
1754- Born
1770- Marries
1774- King
Woodsman: fate personified
Farmer: personifies death
Moveable framework: guillotine
“along the roads that lay before them” (3).
Fate/foreshadow

11. Idiom “riding shotgun”

12. 20 iles 20 miles across Channel
Jerry Cruncher (messenger) from London to Dover and back
Jarvis Lorry (passenger) going from London to Paris for business. Gets a message and sends back response.
20 miles across
Channel
20 iles

13. Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Dover, England Char: Lorry Allusions
Figurative Language
Char: Lucie
Epithets
Symbols
Themes
Char: Pross
Caricature
Saint Antoine, Paris, France
Symbols
Char: Gaspard
Anaphora/Personification: Hunger
Char: Defarge and wife
Epithets
Char: Dr. Manette

14. Chapter 6- end of Book I Chapter 6 Figurative Languages Epithets
Lucie- role reversal
Symbols
Epistrophe
Human Nature- theme
Bastille- allusion
Themes
Motifs

15. Book the Second The Golden Thread
Ch. 1
Metaphorical titles of Bk 2 and Ch 1
Setting: England, March 1780
Char: Tellson’s Bank
Death- Epistrophe
Char: Jerry Cruncher + fam
Foreshadow: “exceedingly red-eyed and grim, as if he had been up all night at a party which had taken anything but a convivial turn”
Cliffhanger: “ ‘Always rusty! His fingers is al-ways rusty!’ muttered young Jerry. ‘Where does my father get all that iron rust from? He don’t get no iron rust here!”

16. Bk 2, Ch. 3- A Disappointment
Title metaphor… “buzz”
Attorney General’s (lawyer for county) charges against Darnay
Solicitor-General’s (defense attorney for client) discrediting of Barsad and Cly’s testimonies (5 total)
Lucie’s testimony both damaging and helpful to Darnay’s case
How Carton helps Stryver
Carton’s characterization
Theme- resurrection
Old Bailey courthouse

17. Bk 2, Ch. 4-5 Chapter 4 Characterize Stryver
Manette- recalled to life?
Significance to Stryver’s name
Carton’s jealousy of Darnay
Foil characters
Hook
Chapter 5
Metaphorical title
Stryver vs. Carton’s relationship
Carton’s childhood
-blames for miserable life
Fate
Hook

18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvweIBn7q-o lions vs. jackals

19. Ch. 6- POD paper review
Why is Miss Pross unhappy because there are “dozens” and “hundreds” of people coming to visit Lucie?
Who is Solomon?
What questions does Lorry ask Pross concerning the doctor and his shoemaking tools?
4. Why is Dr. Manette afraid to remember his past? 5. Why is Darnay’s story about the prisoner in the tower upsetting to Manette? Cross Reference 6. Explain the foreshadow/significance at the end of the chapter.

20. Ch POD review
Ch. 8
4. Characterize Gabelle and Monseigneur (relationship and roles)
Symbol- “blue cap”
5. “ tall as a spectre”- characterize/CR
Restore to life- theme
Marquis- stone cold apathy
Hook
Ch. 7
1. Two columns describing 1st estate vs. 3rd estates lifestyles
2. Characterize Farmer General and Monseigneur (relationship and titles)
Symbol- fountain
3. Find at least 2 biblical allusions

21. Ch. 9 Twin brother! Darnay- renounce this propery and France
Connection between Marquis and Manette
Repetition- three heavy hours
Symbol- fountain (CR)
Jacques- (CR)
Nobleman’s stony apathy his inability to comprehend the suffering of the people or make an effort.
Greek allusion- gorgon
Setting
Characterize- Marquis
Foreshadow- stone cold
Suspense- is Darnay his nephew? Shadows…he is nervous and anxious
Motif- doubles- names
Secret business- trial
Allusion- Letter de cachet
Motif- doubles- ideals and morals

22. Ch. 10 Pod Paper
6. What promise concerning his past does Darnay make to Dr. Manette?
7. Identify and explain the significance for one example of anaphora and cite.
8. Identify and cite multiple examples that Dr. Manette is greatly disturbed by the prospect of Darnay and Lucie’s marriage.
9. Give two examples of motifs AND CR each to previous chapters. Explain their significance to the novel.
10. Identify, cite and explain one example of foreshadow.
Explain the setting.
How does Darnay earn his living in England?
Identify the TWO promises Darnay and Dr. Manette make concerning Lucie.
Describe Manette’s current status of being “recalled to life” as evidenced in this chapter.
How long has Darnay been “so intimate here”?

23. Ch. 11-12 Note: 12/13 juxtapose one another
Q&A for either Ch. 11 or 12? Each POD will take a character and analyze. Include traits and examples. Scuba dive! Things to consider: physical traits, static vs. dynamic, external influences, what other characters say/think about them, upbringing, etc. What is Dickens’ purpose for including this character in the novel? Characters: Darnay, Dr. Manette, Pross, Jerry, Lucie, Stryver, Defarge, Mdm. Defarge, Lorry, Monseigneur the Marquis/twin

24. In Ch. 13, why does Carton say he is grateful that Lucie does not love or want to marry him? CR.
Consider/analyze: Carton cannot conceive himself changing for the better.
What secret does Carton ask Lucie to keep as the “last confidence” of his life? Analyze. CR.
Assume the closing of this chapter is an example of foreshadowing. What future event do you think Dickens is suggesting?
In Ch. 14, what is Cruncher’s after-hours secret occupation? CR.
List 3 examples of mischief in which the crowds following Cly’s funeral engage after the casket is buried. Why does the mob disperse finally?
What does the phrase “no fish for breakfast” suggest regarding Cruncher’s nighttime occupation? CR/analyze little Jerry. Ch
Note: Chapter 12: the Fellow of Delicacy vs. Chapter 13: the Fellow of no Delicacy are two metaphorical chapter titles that juxtapose one another.
Take a few minutes to compare/contrast these concepts between the chapters above.

25. Ch. 15 https://skyfishknits. wordpress
“thin wine” symbolic
Setting- revolutionary’s secret meeting place
CR Bk I, Ch. 5
Contrast Defarge and wife
Dual views of the revolution
Apartment/attic- CR Bk I, Ch. 5
Mender of the roads- CR and characterize
Gaspard’s arrest- CR
Onomatopoeia- “tramp tramp”
Personification- prison
Parallelism
Whispers at fountain- CR buzz in the court
Inhumane treatment of the time- Damiens’ death (25 years prior)
Gaspard’s death
Fountain- symbol- polluted
Foreshadow- “the chateau and all the race,” extermination.
Knitting- epithet/significance
Hook

26. Ch. 16- Pod review and share with class themes
Themes to CR (5-7 ex):
Revenge
Injustice
Evils of Revolution
Sacrifice
Hope
Human kind’s capacity for violence and evil
Social oppression
Loyalty
Resurrection & renewal
Suffering
Have DLPs out for check
Q&A
Mdm vs. M. Defarge’s views
Rose- symbol for spy
Allusions

27. Ch. 17-18- POD review- grading
Manette refers to his past imprisonment the night before Lucie’s wedding. What is Lucie’s reaction to this conversation? CR
A motif is confusion between reality vs. illusion. Cite an event in this chapter. CR to other events in the book.
The night before her wedding, why does Lucie check on her father? CR
4. CR Darnay’s secretive meeting with Manette the morning of the wedding. What are they discussing? 5. Why does Manette begin to make shoes again after Lucie and Darnay leave? CR 6. What does Lorry observe about Manette after the 9th day? What does he tell Lucie?

28. Ch. 19- Carey review Any remaining Q&A Ch. 17-18? Metaphorical title
Setting- 10th day of relapse
Dark imagery
Motif- shoemaker’s bench
Manette’s state of mind- confusion
“cautiously proceed to seek direction and guidance from the opinion he had been…”
3rd person conversation (CR Bk 1)
Lucie doesn’t know of relapse
Only Lorry and Pross know
3 questions:
Will this happen again?
Does overwork cause it?
Remove shoe bench?
Darnay’s secret on wedding day/loss of Lucie caused relapse
“Blacksmith’s work”
Theme: sacrifice
Metaphor/simile of bench

29. Ch. 20- Carey review Figurative Language Review
1. Repetition forms: anaphora and epistrophes
2. Epithets and paradox
3. Personification and hyperboles
4. Imagery: dark vs. light
5. Imagery: verbal, dramatic and situational
6. POV shifts and caricatures
7. Symbols
8. Allusions: historical, biblical, Greek
9. Foil characters and juxtapositions
10. Idiom, similes, metaphors
Figurative Language Review
Each pod assigned a term. Define and find multiple examples to CR.
Include significance for Dickens’ using this type of language for the reader.
30 minutes to work as a pod and then share

30. Ch Carey Review
Ch. 21
Ch. 22
Metaphorical title: Lucie’s son, Carton, Stryver 1789
Setting mid July
symbol- lightning (CR)
Lorry- Tellson’s business
Dark imagery
Tons of foreshadow
Setting shift change to France- storming of the Bastille (July 14)
105 North Tower
Symbolism of 7
Water- symbol (CR)
Metaphorical title
Mdm Defarge characterize
Vengeance characterize
Old Foulon/son in law
Killings by the peasants impact their lives
Greek allusion- furies
Drums- dual meaning

31. Ch. 23- POD Review
Q&A
Work on Bk 2 Allusions page in packet

32. Ch. 24 Setting: August 14, 1792 (3 yrs) Tellson’s, England
Darnay= Marquis St. Evremonde
Irony- “I wish I were going myself”
Allusions- biblical, literary, historical
Loadstone Allusion
Lorry (78 yrs old), employed 60 yrs
CR Ch. 18 & 6- secret
Catalyst- Gabelle’s plea
Stryver, Lorry, Darnay- letter
Stryver’s POV on Marquis
Theme- Human Nature
Characterization- Darnay
Hist Allusion- Abbaye
2 letters to Lucie & Doctor
Themes- sacrifice, loyalty
“heavy mist” CR Bk I
Hook

33. Thursday- finish Bk 2 Allusions/Green packet
Ch. 24- POD Review
Motifs to CR to class:
Spies
2. Prisons
3. Coincidences
4. Secrets
5. Darkness/Shadows
6. Light
7. Doubles
8. Shoebench
9. Fate
10. Love
Thursday- finish Bk 2 Allusions/Green packet
Friday- motifs review
Q&A
Green packet due 6/2:
Documentary
Symbols
Ivy Green
Active Reading
Parallelism
Allusions

34. Ch. 1
Bk 3, Ch. 1-2
Ch. 2
Book 3 metaphorical title
Chapter 1’s metaphorical title
Aristocrat + emigrant
Situational irony- decree
Setting- August 14, 1792
Epithet- traveler
Monsieur Defarge- loyalties
Liberty cap- symbol
Epithet- prisoner- Evremonde
37 years old (25 at trial) 12 years since trail Book 2
Solitary confinement parallels Manette Bk 1
La Force prison- allusion
Metaphor- aristocrats = ghosts
Light/dark imagery
Darnay/Evremonde are doubles – char: regret
Hook- parallel Darnay and Manette
Setting: September 3, 1792; Tellson’s Bank, Paris
Motif: darkness
Grindstone, mob mentality- symbol repeated)
Manette- role- reversal “privileged person” characterization
CR revolution and the murders of the aristocracy – Dickens belief?
Theme: human violence, loyalty, suffering, hope
Characterize Lucie- ideal woman
Epithet- white hair
Anaphora- “o the long, long night”
Imagery- blood, foreshadow

35. Bk 3, Ch. 3-5 Carey Review Q+A POD Review:
Ch. 3, metaphorical title, motif and foreshadow= Vengeance and Mdm. Defarge
Situational Irony- takes “the shadow” to Lucie and her family
Monsieur Defarge’s role= loyalties
Verbal irony- Lucie’s comments to Madam Defarge
Characterize Jerry
Note: repetition= weekly installments of newspaper
Characterize Madam Defarge= imagery
Fate- symbol, personification, Dickens
Lucie- static, ideal woman
Ch. 4, setting- 4 days later
Title- oxymoron/metaphor
Manette- dynamic character! characterize
Define: The Tribunal, The Law of the Suspected= historical allusions
Guillotine- allusion/jokes made regarding
Biblical allusions
Carey Review
Q+A
Dramatic irony
Doubles- motif
Manette- 62 years old
Theme- hope
Allusion- Reign of Terror
1 year, 3 months have passed since Charles imprisoned in France.
Ch. 5, Samson- wooden shoes CR!
Asyndeton- ; repetition
Setting- France, December 1793
Symbolism- 3 o’clock
Allusion- Carmagnole
Compassion- speaks and gives money to Samson
Personification, light/dark imagery, motifs, symbols, CR
Hook!!!!! Who is with Mr. Lorry?!?!

36. Bk 3, Ch. 6-10 26 May 2017 Ch. 9-10 Carey review More movie?
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Ch. 7-8 POD Review
Ch 7, setting: same day.
Metaphorical title- tone/fear
Role-reversal
Motif- shadows
Lucie- char (note reactions)
Manette- char (note reactions)
Theme- renewal
Bk 1, Ch 1 Juxtaposing images “in the universal fear and distrust…”
Cruncher – char/epithet
Pross- char/caricature
Why can’t they leave France yet?
Foreshadow/simile/personification
“the staircase is as still as death”
4 have come for Charles- who are they?
What is charge? Who denounces him?
Ch 8, metaphorical title /what are the hands at cards made?
Setting: evening/mist
National Razor- allusion
Anaphora & Polysyndeton “;of the…”
Barsad vs. Pross- relationship/ char
Biblical & hist allusions (multiple)
Jerry recognizes Barsad CR to Bk 1 & 2
Dialect- sheep
Tellson’s Bank is old Monseigneur’s house CR
Jackal char- “Carton’s negligent recklessness”
Foreshadow/sacrifice/char “There was a braced purpose…”
Dr. Manette’s influence or lack of now???
Hhandos at caHand at Cards- 3:
Sdkjfkdjfkdjfdk 1. Barsad’s false/double names
Sdkdkdkdkkdd 2. Spy for France
Dkdkdkd Spy for England
Carton blackmails Barsad for assistance
More movie?

37. Chapter 10
Note: This is Manette’s journal being read as evidence in Darnay’s 3rd trial!
Flashback
1st POV
Setting: December 1767
Title- CR shadow and darkness tone
Hid in chimney (CR Defarge finding)
10 years in prison at this time
Sane of mind. Important!
Darnay born 1755
Reviews unjust reason for imprisonment
Marquis & twin- doubles
Symbol- fountain- Beauvaius CR
Char: Marquis and brothers throughout ch
Theme: oppression
Patient- characterize the young woman
24 hours of feverish ravings
2nd patient- characterize the brother of woman
Hubris of the Rev “A crazed young common dog…”
Theme: fate/humankind’s capacity “He was quite incapable of any compassionate…”
Epistrophe “us”
“We were so robbed” CR to Gaspard Ch. 7
Theme: oppression
Paradox/doubles/hubris “The two opposing kinds of pride…” imagery
Rape of woman/Uncle the worst!!!!
“young sister” what char is that??????
CR Bk 2, registry “in the days when all these things are to be answered for…”
26 hours then woman dies. Father, husband, woman, unborn child all dead. Little sister survives and in hiding “safe”
Twins pay Manette for silence
Rouleau of gold- symbol of corruption CR
Darnay and mother- atonement for sins
Hook

38. Theme: Rebirth Bk 3, Ch. 11-13 Ch. 11, metaphorical title
Chapter 13
Metaphorical title- 52
3rd person limited- Darnay
Theme: fate (CR)
3 letters (CR Bk 2): Lucie, Manette, Lorry
Irony- “he never thought of Carton” CR and characterize Darnay and Carton
Flashbacks- Darnay- theme of sacrifice
Carton- dynamic character- characterize!
VAPOUR- (CR Ch. 9)
Epithet/Symbol- Christ Figure (CR)
52 must die! (CR Ch. 9)
Barsad’s part in the plan (CR Ch. 8-9)
Setting: “dark winter day…”
Seamstress- char/injustice/corruption
Parallel/Setting shift “the same shadows…on the prison…on the Barrier”
All flee- 52 die!
Epistrophe - “Us”
Ch. 11, metaphorical title
Significance of “a life you love?” CR
Purpose for Manette’s message to Lorry at 9 PM
Hook
Ch. 12, metaphorical title
Purpose for Carton at wine shop
What does he learn there?
Why do the Defarges speak so freely in front of Carton?
Carey Q + A
Theme: Rebirth

39. Bk 3, Ch. 14-15 Ch. 14- the knitting done- metaphor
Parallel structure- setting shift (same time as Ch. 13)
Char Madam Defarge vs. husband
Juxtaposition- opposition
Char all Rev leaders
“Wife and child must follow…” Loyalties
Doubles- Lucie and Little Lucie
CR Woodsawyer’s witnessing of Lucie
“Celestial witness” Vengeance idolizes Mdm. Defarge
Conflict- “No, I cannot spare him”
3pm- the 52 being executed today- Darnay
Vengeance to execution, Mdm to another “engagement”
Sympathy- at home grieving, more proof!
Epithets/caricatures- Pross vs. Defarge
Characterize!!!! CR
Suspense
Theme- sacrifice, love, loyalty
Ch. 15- the footsteps die out for Ever CR
Hubris of French Rev
Historical allusion- tumbrils
Desensitized to the deaths- hist allusion
Biblical allusion- Jezebels
Mob mentality
Characterize Carton and Seamstress
Barsad char “he is going to pay…”
3pm execution time for the 52
“The supposed Evremonde” CR change places- sacrifice- a life you love
Fate
Theme: Sacrifice, love, renewal, hope
Carton’s last words if written- 1st POV
Soliloquy
Pity/tears CR from Lucie
Parallelism- beginning/end ideas and structure “Recalled to life”
Sacrifice for love earns himself an honored place in Manette family and heaven

40. More historical terminology:
Tumbrils of the Revolution
Monty Python- Bring Out Your Dead!
Letres de cachet
Law of the Suspects
Carmagnole
First American Continental Congress

41. Major Characters Jarvis Lorry Charles Darnay 60 yrs old
Bank clerk for Tellson’s Bank in London
25 yrs old
Known in France as Evremonde
Left France to live in England
Tutors languages

42. Major characters Miss Lucie Manette Dr. Alexandre Manette 17 yrs old
Daughter of Dr. Manette
Born in France
Lives in London
Lucie’s father
Prisoner in Bastille for 18 yrs

43. Major Characters Monsieur Ernest Defarge Lives in Paris
Madame Therese Defarge
Owner of wine-shop
Leader of revolution
Former servant to Dr. Manette
Rescues him and calls Mr. Lorry
Married to Madame Defarge
Wife of Monsieur Defarge
Works into knitting the names of enemies of Revolution so they can be identified and executed
Vindictive and full of revenge

44. Major Characters Sydney Carton Jerry Cruncher Assistant to Stryver
Drunk
Looks like Charles Darnay
Loves Lucie
Porter and errand-man for Tellson’s Bank in London
Grave-robber at night
Comic relief

45. Minor Characters CJ Stryver Miss Pross Attorney in London Ambitious
Wants to marry Lucie Manette
Nurse to Lucie Manette
Sister of Solomon Pross (AKA John Barsad)
Caricature of English servants

46. Marquis St. Evremonde
The Elder and his wife
The cruel uncle of Charles Darnay. Also called “The Younger.” he inherited the title at “The Elder’s” death
Assaulted Madame Defarge’s sister
The twin brother of the Marquis St. Evremonde, referred to as “the Elder” (held the title of Marquis until his death) and his wife, who fears him. They are the parents of Charles Darnay.

47. Minor Characters Solomon Pross Roger Cly
English spy who testifies against Charles Darnay
Miss Pross’ long-lost brother
English spy who testifies against Charles Darnay

48. Minor characters Little Lucie
Daughter of Lucie Manette and Charles Darnay

49. Monty Python
Tumbrils of the Revolution

50. Motifs Doubles Shadows and darkness Imprisonment Parallelism
Mob mentality
Hope
Love
Loyalty
Spying

51. Themes The ever-present possibility of resurrection and redemption
The necessity of sacrifice and suffering
The tendency toward violence and oppression in revolutionaries
Revenge
Value of Life

52. Style 3rd person omniscient point of view Historical Novel
Dickens originally wrote the novel in weekly installments to be published in local paper.
Each chapter leaves the reader hanging, full of questions that can only be answered by next week’s installment.
First line one of the most famous in literature.
Published 1859.