English I students worked on the penultimate group of 10 chapters in Great Expectations.  We’re examining how Dickens’s development of characters reveals something about his views of social class. The groups spent the day comparing character pairs:

Afterward, students looked at selections from chapter 51, when Pip discusses his discoveries with Jaggers:

For whose sake would you reveal the secret? For the father’s? I think he would not be much the better for the mother. For the mother’s? I think if she had done such a deed she would be safer where she was. For the daughter’s?

English 8 students began working on act two scene one of The Diary of Anne Frank.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • by Wednesday, complete the book except for the final chapter;
  • by Monday, complete the two free-writing questions based on today’s lesson:
    • What would happen to Estella if Pip divulges the secrets of her background?
    • How do these secrets change the relationship between Pip and Estella? How are the two characters now much more similar than previously thought?