1. Pride and Prejudice Chapter 1 close read

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3. Reading Checks
Note the location of each family and what happens where.
There will be quote identification: note the way in which the characters speak. Knowing their personalities helps identify their quotes.
Multiple choice, matching, and true false

4. Helpful websites
Google search, and find the Pemberley websites. These are the most useful.
Free audio: Librivox.org search for Pride and Prejudice… listen to version 6 (dramatic reading)
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5. Helpful chart while reading
Character (list as many as you find)
Family name
Home and its location
Characterized as…
Social status and attitude towards it
Elizabeth
Bennet
Longbourn, near Meryton, Hartfordshire
Witty, bold, beautiful
Middle class, content
Mrs. Bennet
etc.

6. Free Indirect Discourse
In the dialogue in this initial chapter and frequently throughout the novel, attributions such as "he said" or "she said" are omitted ([3]). In a letter to her sister, Cassandra, dated January 29, 1813, Jane Austen admits that "a 'said he' or a 'said she' would sometimes make the Dialogue more immediately clear—but I do not write for such dull Elves As have not a great deal of Ingenuity themselves" (Letters, 202). She expects her readers to display high intelligence and assumes that she is not writing for a stupid or dim-witted audience.

7. Listen and annotate How might we characterize each person?
What evidence reveals the Bennets’ economic status?
What are the attitudes towards courtship and marriage?
What are the evident rules of social decorum?
What is the tone of the narration? Does it ever seem to change from one character’s opinion to another?