A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Assessment Manual THE EMC MASTERPIECE SERIES Access Editions SERIES EDITOR Robert D. Shepherd EMC/P aradigm Publishing St. Paul, Minnesota Staff Credits: For EMC/Paradigm Publishing, St. Paul, Minnesota Laurie Skiba Eileen Slater Editor Editorial Consultant Shannon O’Donnell Taylor Jennifer J. Anderson Associate Editor Assistant Editor For Penobscot School Publishing, Inc., Danvers, Massachusetts Editorial Design and Production Robert D. Shepherd Charles Q. Bent President, Executive Editor Production Manager Christina E. Kolb Sara Day Managing Editor Art Director Kim Leahy Beaudet Tatiana Cicuto Editor Compositor Sara Hyry Editor Laurie A. Faria Associate Editor Sharon Salinger Copyeditor Marilyn Murphy Shepherd Editorial Consultant Assessment Advisory Board Dr. Jane Shoaf James Swanson Educational Consultant Educational Consultant Edenton, North Carolina Minneapolis, Minnesota Kendra Sisserson Facilitator, The Department of Education, The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois ISBN 0–8219–1726–9 Copyright © 1998 by EMC Corporation All rights reserved. The assessment materials in this publication may be photocopied for classroom use only. No part of this publication may be adapted, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmit - ted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, with - out permission from the publisher. Published by EMC/Paradigm Publishing 875 Montreal Way St. Paul, Minnesota 55102 Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 xxx 03 02 01 00 99 98 Table of Contents Notes to the Teacher . 2 ACCESS EDITION ANSWER KEY Answers for Book I, Chapters 1–6 . 6 Answers for Book II, Chapters 1–6 . 8 Answers for Book II, Chapters 7–13 . 10 Answers for Book II, Chapters 14–20 . 12 Answers for Book II, Chapters 21–24 . 14 Answers for Book III, Chapters 1–6 . 17 Answers for Book III, Chapters 7–11 . 19 Answers for Book III, Chapters 12–15 . 23 GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS Graphic Organizers . 28 Graphic Organizers Answer Key . 32 VOCABULARY AND LITERARY TERMS REVIEW Vocabulary Review, Book I . 36 Vocabulary Review, Book II . 37 Vocabulary Review, Book III . 39 Vocabulary Worksheet, Book I . 40 Vocabulary Worksheet, Book II . 41 Vocabulary Worksheet, Book III . 42 Cumulative Vocabulary Exam . 43 Literary Terms Review . 44 Literary Terms Worksheet . 45 Vocabulary and Literary Terms Answer Key . 46 EXAM MASTERS Exam, Book I . 48 Exam Answer Key, Book I . 54 Exam, Book II . 56 Exam Answer Key, Book II . 63 n Exam, Book III . 69 o i t a Exam Answer Key, Book III . 76 r o p r o C EVALUATION FORMS C M Evaluation Form, Writing Process . 86 E 8 Evaluation Form, Writing Plan . 87 9 9 1 Evaluation Form, Writing Summary . 88 © Evaluation Form, Compositions/Reports . 89 Evaluation Form, Analytic Scale . 90 Evaluation Form, Holistic Response . 91 Evaluation Form, Writing: Revising and Proofreading Checklists . 92 Evaluation Form, Discussion . 93 Evaluation Form, Project . 94 ASSESSMENT MANUAL / A TALE OF TWO CITIES 1 Notes to the Teacher About The EMC Masterpiece Series Access Editions The EMC Masterpiece Series Access Editions have been designed to make great works of literature accessible to all levels of students. Each Access Edition contains a complete literary masterpiece as well as a unique integrated study apparatus crafted to guide the student page by page through the entire work. This feature does away with the inconvenience of switching between a literary work and a study guide, since both are included in each Access Edition. Each EMC Masterpiece Series Access Edition contains the following materials: • The complete literary work • A historical introduction including an explanation of literary or philosophical trends relevant to the work • A biographical introduction with a time line of the author’s life • Art, including explanatory illustrations, maps, genealogies, and plot diagrams, as appropriate to the text • Study apparatus for each chapter or section, including Guided Reading Questions; Words for Everyday Use entries for point-of-use vocabulary development; footnotes; Responding to the Selection questions; Reviewing the Selection questions (including Recalling, Interpreting, and Synthesizing questions to ensure that your students con - duct a close and accessible reading of the text); and Understanding Literature questions • Source materials used by the author of the work (where appropriate) • A list of topics for creative writing, critical writing, and research projects • A glossary of Words for Everyday Use • A handbook of literary terms Book the First—Recalled to Life CHAPTER 1 The Period Guided Reading Questions guide students through the work by It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the √ What is the chief age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch characteristic of the of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of period when this tale raising important issues in key begins? To what Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of other period does the passages hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before narrator compare it? 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. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain √ What did the face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large leaders of France and jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.1 In England believe about the stability of both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the their countries? n state preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general o i were settled forever. t a It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred r and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to o 2 p England at that favored period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott r had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birth- o day, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards3 had C heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that C arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London M and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid E Footnotes explain obscure refer - only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, 8 as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally defi- 9 ences, unusual usages, and terms 9 cient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the meant to enter students’ passive earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown 1 © 1. There were a king . France. George III and Charlotte Sophia were king vocabularies and queen of England; Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were king and queen of France. 2. Mrs. Southcott. Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), popular psychic of the time 3. Life Guards. Two regiments of cavalry in the British army, making up part Words for Everyday Use entries of the king’s bodyguard à define and give pronunciations for Words in • cre • du • li • ty (in ´krə do—o´lə te¯) n., skepticism For sub • lime (sə blK¯m´) adj., inspiring awe or admiration difficult terms meant to enter stu - Everyday through grandeur or beauty dents’ active vocabularies Use W BOOK THE FIRST, CHAPTER 1 1 2 ASSESSMENT MANUAL / A TALE OF TWO CITIES Notes to the Teacher Responding to the Selection Responding to the Selection is a reader What questions do you have about the characters and events that response activity designed to connect the have happened? Try to predict answers to these questions. students emotionally to the literature and allow Reviewing the Selection them to relate the work to their own lives. Recalling and Interpreting Reviewing the Selection takes students.