Western Literature May 4, 2015

DISAPPOINTMENT JOURNAL 1.When was the last time you were disappointed? Pip has great expectations and excitement for London but his experience is that it is a dirty and disappointing city. 2.Should we lower our expectations for life as to avoid disappointment? WARM UP FOR MAY 4, 2015

Move the desks into a circle for our discussion of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. HONORS STUDENTS HONORS STUDENTS: It is your own responsibility to jump into the conversation and read your passage to facilitate discussion about the significance of your selected passage. EVERYONE EVERYONE: It is your responsibility to participate in our conversation and balance your participation (i.e. do not monopolize the conversation or stay completely silent). SOCRATIC CIRCLE

Take out your chart for Pip’s Development to add two more entries. Take out your chart for Pip’s Development to add two more entries. For each entry on your timeline, include a trait that he exhibits and a quote to represent that trait. For example For example: Pip feels guilty as he explains, “Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment” (Dickens 12-13). PIP’S DEVELOPMENT CHART

Read chapters of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and complete the sentence summaries/PARCQ annotations per chapter. Remember our DCPA workshop is tomorrow! HOMEWORK