Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6
Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4
Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A 10 Day reading lesson plan with 35 vocabulary words AND definitions for A Tale of Two Cities, in order of appearance, as indicated:
Day one:
1. tumbrils p. 5;
2. blunderbusses p. 6;
3. unfathomable p. 6;
4. turnkeys p. 6;
5. gaols-jails,
Day two:
Vocabulary = none
Day three:
6. auspicious p. 79 adj - promising/of good omen
7. pernicious p. 81 -adj. deadly, destructive;
8. debauched p. 90 - adj. morally corrupt;
9. commiseration p. 92 - noun - sympathy;
10. deportment p. 101 - noun - behavior, demeanor
Day four:
11. emulative p. 127 - adj. - imitative in excellence;
12. sumptuous p. 129 - adj. - costly and luxurious;
13. chateau p. 145 - noun - castle or country house in France;
14. assertion p . 150 - noun - bold claim;
15. perpetuating p. 152 - verb - cause to continue; preserve from oblivion
Day five:
16. magnanimous p. 174 - adj - ;
17. crestfallen p. 177 - adj. dejected, very disappointed;
18. supplication p. 188 - noun;
19. interment p. 193 - noun;
20. injunction p. 196 - noun
Day six:
Vocabulary = none
Day seven:
21. lethargic p. 231 - adj. - drowsy, sluggish;
22. assailant p. 234 - noun - person who attacks;
23. vestige p. 237 - noun - trace, mark or sign of something that once existed but has disappeared;
24. incidental p. 244 - adj. -casual, secondary or minor, but usually associated with something more important;
25. concession p. 250 - noun - a things acknowledged or granted
Day eight:
Vocabulary for pp. 257-286 = none
Day nine:
Vocabulary for pp.. 287-301/303-317 = none
Day ten:
26. imperil p. 326 - verb - to endanger;
27. doleful p. 327 - adj. - full of sorrow;
28. sagacious p. 335- adj. - showing keen perception
29. zealous p. 354 - adj. - enthusiastic; devoted to a purpose;
30. meddlesome p. 364 - adj. - interfering;
31. condescension p. 365 - noun - act of treating others as if they are of lesser worth;
32. composure p. 372 - noun - calmness of mind; tranquility;
33. taciturn p. 374 - adj. not liking to talk; uncommunicative;
34. gentility p. 386 - noun - belonging by birth to the upper class;
35. suppressed p. 396 - adj. - being kept back; restrained
Links to vocabulary words lists and puzzles for other Charles Dickens novels:
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities - you are here
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Thank you Nancy Bodziak from Brockport High School, Brockport, NY, a teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com, for the vocabulary list from The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
A teacher who prefers to remain anonymous graciously shared an additional vocabulary word list - a set of 18 vocabulary words from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens with participants at www.myVocabulary.com. The vocabulary word list is in alphabetical, order:
adjuration, alluvial, contagion, emigrant, epoch, guillotine, malice, mire, piscatory, plunder, sagacious, sawyer, slough, solicitude, stolid, sublime, tocsin, tumbrils. |
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