WEEK 7

Hello! 

Sorry - I know it's not on the agenda, but I need to add in another two-week / catch-up post. I've decided last minute to do the men's retreat this weekend. So yes, we'll end up going a week longer.

Here's your work for the next two weeks...

1. LBGB...

A. Read chapter 4. 

B. Explain in your own words the five "AVOIDS" in the Style & Usage section.

C. Write a sentence using each term in the pair correctly:

    possible / plausible

    shall / will

    who / whom

D. Write three sentences, each using the word literally in a corret way.     

1. Let's shore up the frontier vocab we've (I mean you've) done over the last few weeks. Look back at your FV assignments -- go back as far as you want -- and choose five words that you think are at the distant end of your frontier (the least recognizable terms). Find two examples (google search?) of each word being used in context. Write your own sentence that mimics one of those uses. So that's 3 sentences for each of 5 words. I think that's 15 sentences total (have a parent check my math). 

2. ATTC Book the Third questions:

1 As Dr. Manette’s letter explaining how he was imprisoned is read to the court, Charles and Lucie are hearing the story for the first time. Record the thoughts of Dr. Manette, Charles, or Lucie by writing a letter from that character to another. (50-100 words)     

2 Choose a secondary character (Pross, Lorry, Little Lucie, Cruncher, etc.) and write a diary entry looking back on the events of “Book the 3^rd”. (50-100 words)     

3 What price does Mrs. Pross end up paying for her loyalty to Lucie? Quote the text.     

4 Read the “supposed” thoughts of Carton at the end of the book. What would be a “valid” reason for Defarge meeting the guillotine?

5 How does Carton’s actual name get redeemed?  Quote the text.    

6 How is Sydney Carton a Christ figure? (3 examples: think sacrifice, spilled blood, substitutionary atonement).

3. ATTC final essay pre-write. For each of the following essay options write a one-paragraph (50-100 words) response:

1. the motif of dualities / pairs (people mostly, but don't forget the title of the book)

2. the plot’s HEAVY reliance on coincidence  

3. the resurrection motif (it's everywhere in the book, but skip Sydney Carton; you just did him in the Bk3rd questions)

4. Character names. How do their names reflect who they are as characters? Discuss a few, but be sure one of them is Sydney Carton (Carton also means box or container...hmmm...)

Have a great two weeks!