WHEN READING GREAT EXPECTATIONS you should be certain to circle vocabulary, write your thematic based questions, and annotate for the theme of Pip's emerging identity. Remember that your notes in the margins should reflect the reader's dialogue with the narrative and what the author wants the audience to consider. I will collect and grade these. If you are having trouble with this text, please see me in room 330 to discuss. You can likewise use the RWC for help with your reading and annotations.

Monday

Check in: Submit your drawing of Satis House to Canvas. Generally, your picture should show who Ms. Havisham is and where she lives. So your illustration should capture the details of both the character and setting, should use color.
For class: Watch the first half-hour of the following documentary on the life of Charles Dickens. You are to take notes on a) his life; b) how his life events shape his view of society, and c) the themes that emerge in his writing. Make sure to take notes, categorizing these notes around these areas.
HW: Many of you have likely read both chapters 12 and 13 at last week’s end, prior to class being cancelled. If you had not, finish reading and annotating these two chapters. If already done, you should review your annotations: How is Pip increasingly falling for Estella, and yet aware of the social distance between them? How does it become increasingly apparent that Pip desires something more than being Joe’s apprentice, and yet his fate is to be “bound” to him in that trade?

Tuesday

Check-in: Take five question quiz on chapters 12 and 13.
For class: Watch the second half of yesterday’s documentary on Charles Dickens’s life. Remember, your notes should reflect the categories mentioned above. Not ALL information is equally important. Listen and take notes selectively.
HW: Reading chapter fourteen. Pip returns to his former life, now working at the forge with Joe.

Wednesday

Check-in: Submit your notes to the Dickens biography as an assignment.
For class: Listen to the audio and read/annotate chapter 15. Mrs. Joe is attached, and insomuch as she isn’t a very sympathetic character, it’s not so difficult to wonder why she might become a target, nor would it be hard to excuse Joe and Pip not feeling too remorseful about her condition. Joe, however, feels great sympathy and affection for his wife, despite her seemingly hard exterior. Why? What is Dickens saying about compassion?
HW: Complete the first half of the GE crossword #1.

Thursday

Check-in: As the A&E Biography made abundantly clear, Dickens grew up in a hostile world, one fraught with danger and cruelty. Where do you see that same world-view depicted in what we’ve read in Great Expectations so far? Write one paragraph and submit it by noon today.
Read and annotate chapter 16. How does Biddy come to replace Estella in Pip’s heart?
HW: Finish GE crossword #1, due tomorrow.

Friday

Check-in: submit the crossword as an assignment.
Reading chapter 17 today, following along with the audio.
HW: No homework for Spring Break. I do ask that students send me an email with feedback on our remote-learning class. What other types of activities might we take advantage of? What ways might we improve this learning model in the weeks to come? Send your note to me via canvas.