E. Quinson

Room D-201

English 9H, period 1

 

Monday, September 15, 2008

DEVELOPMENT:  to continue to trace the developments of Pip’s character in Dickens’ Great Expectations.

DO NOW entry:   Discuss Pip’s desire to become a gentleman.

DEVELOPMENT:

1.      Discuss: Chaps  11 – 13 pp. 91-119

a.       Discuss HW entry:  what happened to Mrs. Joe!

b.      Discuss and describe Orlick.  A pretty creepy character.  Who has him?  Report!

c.       Discuss further events at Satis House.

d.      Discuss changes in Pip.

e.       Discuss his feelings for Estella.

f.        Discuss and describe Biddy.

g.       Discuss DO NOW entry:

                                                   i.      What is a gentleman? 

                                                 ii.      Refer back to our discussion last Thursday about the class system.

                                                iii.      Can one change one’s class?  In Britain?  In the U.S.?

                                               iv.      How might wanting to do so be good or bad?

                                                 v.      Why does Pip want to be a gentleman?

h.       How are these experiences/desires changing Pip? 

2.      Review/summarize.  If time allows, students may begin reading for this evening.

Homework:  1.  Reading, Chaps. 18 – 19, pp.149-177.  2.  Writer’s Notebook Question:  unsure yet….  Perhaps individual response?  3.  Summer Reading Assignment will be completed soon, so make sure you have finished those books.  We are going to the computer lab on Thursday.  So have a rough draft of at least one response to one book by then to post to our blog.

 

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

SWBAT:  discuss the use of symbolism and irony to move the novel forward from the first to the second stand of Pip’s Great Expectations.

DO NOW:  Review the handout.

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Review the handout with students.
  2. Stress the importance of seriousness of purpose.
  3. Students work in groups to formulate good responses the discussion questions.
  4. Groups reconvene to discuss findings.
  5. Review/closure.

H.W.:  1.  Read Great Expectations:  Chaps.  20 – 22, pp.178-204.  2.  Write two pages in response.  Compare Pip’s experience so far in London with his expectations of it.  3.  Keep up with vocabulary.  3.  Summer Reading Assignment will be completed soon, so make sure you have finished those books.  We are going to the computer lab on Thursday.  So have a rough draft of at least one response to one book by then to post to our blog.

 

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

SWBAT:  practice a reading comprehension exercise for the ELA exam in January.

DO NOW:  Collect Writer’s notebooks.

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Discuss Pop Quiz.
  2. Whole class discussion:
Chapter Twenty

1.       Where did Pip go on his arrival in London?

2.       Describe Jagger's office.

3.       What was Pip's impression of the court and gallows area?

4.       How does Jaggers treat his clients?

5.       Describe Pip's meeting with Mr. Jaggers.

6.       What instructions did Pip receive?

7.       What new character is introduced? Put him on your character list.

Chapter Twenty-one

1.       Describe Mr. Wemmick. What is the character tag that Dickens gives him?

2.       What was Pip's first impression of Barnard's Inn?

3.       Describe Barnard's Inn.

4.       What surprise awaited Pip and Mr. Pocket Jr.?

Chapter Twenty-two

1.       What was Herbert Pocket's opinion of Estella?

2.       What relation were Herbert's father and Miss Havisham?

3.       What nickname did Herbert give Pip? Why?

4.       Give Herbert's account of Miss Havisham.

5.       Describe Miss Havisham's suitor. Whom was his accomplice?

6.       Who does Herbert think is Pip's benefactor?

7.       What was Herbert's plan for getting wealth?

8.       Put Herbert on your character list and add to Miss Havisham.

9.       Where did Herbert take Pip?

10.    Put Belinda and Matthew Pocket on your character list.

 

H.W.:  H.W.:  1.  Read Great Expectations:  Chaps.   23 – 26, pp. 205-236.  2.  Summer Reading Assignment will be completed soon, so make sure you have finished those books.  We are going to the computer lab on Thursday, TOMORROW!  So have a rough draft of at least one response to one book by then to post to our blog.

 

Thursday, September 18, 2008 – computer lab – blogging summer reading assignments!

  1. H.W.:  Read Great Expectations, chapters 27-29, pp. 236-264.  2.  Write 2 pp. in your w.n.:  Discuss how Pip’s relationship with Joe has changed since the beginning of the book.  Has OUR opinion of Joe changed?  How about our opinion of Pip?  Why might this be?   3.  Rough draft of one of the summer reading books assignment for tomorrow.

 

Friday, September 19, 2008

SWBAT: analyze changes in characters in Great Expectations:  Pip v. Joe, Pip v. Estella and the evil Orlick.

DO NOW:  Write an entry in your writer’s notebook:  Analyze this quotation: “Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s a goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come.” What is Joe saying?  What does this tell us about Pip?  About Joe?  Do we agree with this?  DEVELOPMENT: 

  1. Review H.W. entry and DO Now.
    1. Joe as moral center.  (in opposition to Orlick, say)

                                                               i.      He never changes.

                                                             ii.      He is uneducated, but WISE.

                                                            iii.      He has natural understanding.

  1. Discussion Questions:
    1. How is Pip changing?  Originally, Pip had things happen to him and he still does:  he is made a gentleman; it’s his greatest wish, but still he does not really do anything to get this.  Still, though, now Pip is entering the wide world.  How does he behave?  Timid?  Kind?  (Think of Trabb and Trabb’s boy.)  NO, NO, NO!  What has he lost?  What has he gained?
    2. He still has a lot to learn and as we enter the second stage we will truly begin to see the education of Pip.  Don’t forget this is a bildungsroman.  We already know that Dickens has little use for formal education (remember Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt’s school?)  What kind of education will Pip receive?
    3. How is London different from his village in Kent?
    4. What is Pip learning about?
    5. The Pale Young Gentleman is Herbert!  Can we see the same character underneath?
    6. What new characters do we have?  Notice how they act in pairs:

                                                               i.      Jaggers and Wemmick

                                                             ii.      Molly and Miss Skiffins

                                                            iii.      Mr. and Mrs. Pocket

                                                           iv.      Drummel and Startop

    1. Describe Estella. How has she changed? 
    2. Has Pip’s opinion of her changed?  Why or why not?
    3. Has Pip changed in relation to Estella?
    4. Where does Pip seem to be in his education?

4.  Review/summarize.  Pip has not really grown yet.  He is still lost in the wilderness of London.  He is still lost with regard to Estella and Satis House.  He has not yet learned the important lessons.

H.W.: 1.  Read Great Expectations:  Chaps.   30-33, pp. 265-293.  2.  Write one page in response.  Discuss Wemmick’s dual personality:  so cheerful amidst such horrible surroundings.  Cite specific examples from the text.  How can we reconcile this?  What is Dickens trying to demonstrate or teach his readers?  3.  Final summer reading assignment posts are due next Friday,  9/26/08.

 

Monday, September 22, 2008

SWBAT:  analyze the juxtaposition of comedy and horror in Great Expectations.

DO NOW:  Write a DO NOW entry:  Discuss Herbert Pocket and Pip as foils for each other.  How are they similar? Different?  Consider their love lives?

DEVELOPMENT:

1.      Discuss DO NOW entry.

2.      Discussion Questions:

a.       Chapter 30:

                                                   i.      Orlick and his threatening presence.  How does Pip get even with him? What may happen as a result of Pip getting him sacked?

                                                 ii.      Why does Pip refer to the codfish and barrel of oysters he sends to Joe as "penitential"?

                                                iii.      Why does Herbert use the nick-name "Handel" for Pip?

                                               iv.      Why does Herbert accuse Pip of "looking into our gift-horse's mouth with a magnifying glass"?

                                                 v.      N.B.:  Vocabulary: "sour grapes" is an allusion to a fable by the Greek Aesop (c. 620-c. 560 BC) in which a fox consoles himself for a crow's unwillingness to help him obtain a bunch of grapes. The term indicates Herbert's wide reading, and suggests that he feels Pip is deluding himself about being intended for Estella.

b.      Chapter 31:

                                                   i.      Wopsle!  Humourous, but hamless?

                                                 ii.      How does Pip's night at the theatre only increase his anxieties instead of easing them?

c.       Chapter 32:

                                                   i.      Why does Dickens include a picture of Newgate Prison?

                                                 ii.      How does Estella appear to Pip in contrast to his visit to the prison?

                                                iii.      Estella and Pip – both pawns in Miss Havisham’s sick fancy

d.      Chapter 33:

                                                   i.      Why has Estella come to London?

                                                 ii.      Why is Pip so full of misery after seeing her?

                                                iii.      N.B:  Vocabulary: "Moses in the bulrushes" is certainly a humorous way of describing the small quantity of butter in relationship to the surrounding parsely. In the Old Testament, Pharaoh's daughter discovers the infant Moses in a basket by the margin of the Nile River (Exodus II: 3-6).

3.      Review/summarize.

H.W.:  1.  Read Great Expectations:  Chaps. 34 – 37, pp.294-324.  2.  DIDN’T WE ALREADY DO THIS???  I”LL HAVE TO RETHINK, PERHAPS???  Write two pages in your writer’s notebook:  Describe Wemmick both at home and at work.  Also, discuss Wemmick’s plan to help Pip help Herbert.   3.  Final summer reading assignment posts are due Friday,  9/26/08.

 

 

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