Great Expectations OBJ: Given the reading of Great Expectations, students will demonstrate comprehension and understanding of literary elements of a novel by completing notes, study guides, analysis, check quizzes, and a test scoring at least an 85%. EQ: Why do authors write novels? What can be learned by reading novels? Why can we relate to the characters in a novel? Where / how does an author get his ideas? What devices do authors use to make conflicts and characters come to life? If novels have deeper meanings, how does one go about discovering or interpreting that meaning?

Essential Questions Great Expectations •What can be learned by reading novels? •Why can we relate to the characters in a novel? •What devices do authors use to make conflicts and characters come to life? •If novels have deeper meanings, how does one go about discovering or interpreting that meaning? What does it mean to be a friend? Does money and status lead to happiness?

Think about while you read EQ: How does the author reveal the theme through characters, setting, plot, and symbols? Theme= social injustices and the class system, law and punishment, morality, parent/child relationships Symbols= mists, character names, clothes, fire Setting = the forge, the marshes, Pip’s room

How to Start Character Guide To complete character study guide: This is a work in progress. This guide should be completed as you read and updated as characters change and evolve. The characters should be filled out according to their physical descriptions, behavioral observations, and how they add to the plot and theme. Example: Trabb: The village tailor. Pip goes to Trabb's to obtain his new suit to go to London. Trabb doesn't treat him well until he learns that Pip is going to become a gentleman and obtain a fortune. Pip learns the power of money through this encounter with Trab.

How to add to a character while reading To complete character study guide: Because this is a work in progress. This guide should be completed as you read and updated as characters change and evolve. When information about characters advances in the plot, continue to add behavioral observations, and how they add to the plot and theme. For characters like Pip, you will need more info than for characters like Miss Skiffins. Condense the info for Pip, touching on the important aspects of his evolving character, and end with what he learns and how this adds to the theme. Example: Trabb: The village tailor. Pip goes to Trabb's to obtain his new suit to go to London. Trabb doesn't treat him well until he learns that Pip is going to become a gentleman and obtain a fortune. Pip learns the power of money through this encounter with Trab. Later in the novel, Trabb expands in business and is the funeral director for Mrs. Joe's funeral. Through his carefully planned and orchestrated funeral, we learn how the Victorian society is very much about showing off and proper conduct to the point of ridiculousness.

Pip You finish the rest……….. We first meet Pip as a little orphan raised boy alone in a graveyard playing among his parent’s tombstones. This is where he meets the convict and does the illegal, but moral thing and risks a beating from his abusive sister to help a man in need. He is raised by this mean sister, Mrs. Joe, and her kind but foolish husband Joe, who is more like a great friend than a parent. Pip is asked to work for a rich and strange old lady and visits Satis House often. Here he is insulted daily by a snobby, but pretty girl his own age. As he grows, he is told by the woman, Miss Havisham to love her and he does. He even begins to resent his origins and his apprenticeship with Joe. He longs to become a gentleman and eventually gets his wish. He is told by a Lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, that he is to go to London for an education and will live the life of a gentleman. His benefactor is a secret and he will receive property someday. He gains an education from Matthew Pocket and becomes roommates and friends with Herbert – both estranged relatives of Miss Havisham’s. The money changes Pip and he becomes bitter with his old friend Biddy and embarrassed of his good friend Joe. He overspends, influences Herbert to overspend and continues to pursue the bratty, but beautiful Estella until his benefactor reveals himself to be the convict that he helped long ago. We learn that Magwitch has always thought of Pip and wanted to make him a gentleman. This devastates Pip. His expectations are a bust. He learns that Estella was not meant for him, he is in debt to a convict, and Miss Havisham has been using him. Now with the help of Herbert and Wemmick, two truly good friends, Pip must sacrifice again to get Magwitch out of England before his enemy, Compeyson finds out he is there illegally and turns him in to his death. Pip is now poor, he sells his stuff to pay some of his debt, refuses to take any more of the convict’s money and confronts Miss Havisham and Estella before he leaves. Miss Havisham realizes what she has done and agrees to help Pip finish the endeavor to help Herbert secretly in his business which Pip started, but now can’t finish. He tells Estella that he loves her even though he now realizes he never had a chance with her, and begs her not to finalize Miss Havisham’s plan to break hearts by marring the worst possible man, Drummel. She refuses and is married. Pip, learning to take everything on evidence learns that Estella is the natural born daughter of a murderer, Molly, and a convict, Magwitch. Pip now feels a bond with Magwitch as he descends into poverty and realizes and appreciates the true meaning of friendship. You finish the rest………..

Summary Objective Obj: Students will demonstrate reading comprehension and understanding of author techniques by writing or drawing a given chapter summary with a partner with 100% accuracy. How can I use a summary to demonstrate understanding of a chapter? How can I use a cartoon to demonstrate understanding of a chapter?

Summary directions Review your given chapter by skimming the text, reading through lecture and reading notes, and checking study guide and character chart. Share info with your partner Selecting the most important event, write a one page summary or design a six slide cartoon. Both must be detailed. Be sure to edit for accuracy and neatness