English 12A: Unit 3, Part Three

English 12A: Unit 3, Part Three

Primary Sources: Diary and Policy Statement

(pp. 568-587)

Diary: from The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Policy Statement: Charles II’s Declaration to London, 1666

London Past and Present by Neil Gaiman

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Vocabulary Builder

Using the Cross-Curricular Vocabulary (p. 569)

A.DIRECTIONS: Using your knowledge of the words in italics, indicate whether these statements are true or false by writing T or F on the line before each statement. Use the lines after the statements to explain your answers.

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Using the Word List

abated apprehensions eminent lamentable malicious notorious

B. DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the definition on the line before the word it defines. Use eachdefinition only once.

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___ 1. abated

___ 2. apprehensions

___ 3. eminent

___ 4. lamentable

___ 5. malicious

___ 6. notorious

a. distressing

b. deliberately harmful

c. worries

d. diminished

e. famous in an unfavorable way

f. noteworthy or high-ranking

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Using Etymology (p. 580)

C. DIRECTIONS: On the lines, explain how the meaning of magistrate reflects its Latin origin.

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Diary: from The Diary of Samuel Pepys (pp. 571-577)

Critical Reading

1.According to the entry for September 3, 1665, what happened to the saddler’s family during the plague? ______

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2. What does Pepys’s reaction to this situation show you about his personality? ______

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3. What does Pepys recommend to the King and Duke of York during the fire? ______

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4. Was the recommendation a good one? Why or why not? ______

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5. What are some modern disasters that compare with the Great Plague and Great Fire of London? ______

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6. Do you think Pepys and others in authority handled disaster as well as their modern counterparts would have? Why or why not? ______

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7. List three details about seventeenth-century London that Pepys includes in his diary.

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8. How has living in London during the plague and the fire affected what Pepys has to say and the effectiveness with which he says it? ______

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Policy Statement: Charles II’s Declaration to London, 1666 (pp. 578-579)

Critical Reading

1. What does Charles say the recent fire has shown about building construction? ______

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2. What situation does he want to prevent by getting rid of very narrow streets and keeping lanes and alleys to a minimum? ______

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3. Why do you think he orders that no house be erected too close to the river? ______

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4. Why does Charles want all London businesses requiring continuous fires to be housed in the same place? ______

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5. Do you think the idea above is practical? Why or why not? ______

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6. What main concern of Charles II’s London has led him to issue this policy statement?

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7. What does this policy statement reveal about London buildings before the fire? ______

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These two primary sources react to two major crises of Charles II’s reign. Reading them canprovide valuable historical insights.

DIRECTIONS: Use the chart below to record and organize the information you learn by applying

Who? What? When? Where? Why? andHow? questions to the two selections. If a question is notanswered in either selection, leave the space blank.

London Past and Present by Neil Gaiman (pp. 582-587)

Critical Reading Questions

1. What does the leather woman say when she learns that Richard and Anaesthesia have never before crossed Night’s Bridge? ______

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2. Do you think that the leather woman has crossed the bridge before? Why or why not?

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3. Briefly summarize what Richard feels and sees in the darkness on Night’s Bridge.

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4. What do “night” and “darkness” come to mean to Richard while he is on the bridge?

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5. Describe the place the leather woman and Richard reach after they cross Night’s Bridge. ______

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6. Are they in the same room they started from? Explain. ______

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7. Do you think that nighttime in Pepys’s London would have been a little bit like the night on Gaiman’s bridge? Why or why not? ______

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8. Why are writes like Gaiman and Pepys so interested in depicting a city like London?

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