Great+Expectations

= = =**Expectations of __Great Expectations__ ** = Become a great reader of a tough text Connect Dickens’ life and times to what he writes Research Trace the development of characters, large and small Analyze settings as symbols Examine irony/reversals
 * Reading for detail- quotes, detailed questions, annotation
 * Reading for pattern- essays on motifs and symbols and structure and character developments—on stage 1,2,3 tests and final and/or separate writing assignments
 * Reading for historical context- learn about Dickens and Victorian England= connection to story/social satire
 * Reading for lit devices/**__language/style__** - Applied Practice/Grammar Dog, annotation
 * Reading for theme- how satire, character development, structure, lang.= meaning/theme
 * Time period research
 * Village Blacksmith poem
 * Bio film and “Fragments of an Autobiography”
 * Essay question on Dickens as social critic/social satirist
 * Research an aspect of Victorian England and compare/contrast to a modern day equivalent or show how it reflected the society/economy, etc. of that day
 * Short, MLA paper with internal citation and Works Cited or PowerPoint and Works Cited
 * Surveying available material and using databases/library familiarity
 * Notetaking and narrowing a thesis
 * Outlining/prewriting
 * Documenting
 * Avoiding plagiarism/paraphrase/quoting
 * Major/minor –Dickens’s talent with minor characters
 * Pip’s changes/maturation/Bildungsroman (novel of initiation/innocence to experience/young man’s maturation)
 * Contrasts/pairs/foils- Biddy-Estella, etc.
 * Symbolic nature of some characters- poor or country folk= pure moneyed or city folk=tainted and cold
 * Jaggers/Wemmick- the businessman- satire on the split personality forced on many, the monomaniacal lawyer
 * London, forge, Satis House, Jaggers house, graveyard
 * Chart on major settings
 * Annotations
 * Link certain characters to their settings- reflect the person’s values or past
 * Pip’s expectations vs. the realities
 * Victorian objectives- civilization/money/education vs. true morality
 * Appearance vs. reality