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First and fourth periods began the day looking at three sentences from Great Expectations, determining phrases, independent clauses, and (as needed) subordinate clauses. Afterward, we began, ahead of schedule, a couple of days’ work on foreshadowing in Dickens’s work. As he published his novels serially in magazines, he had a great motivation to get people coming back to read more, so Dickens often dropped hints to build mini-cliff-hangers — the technical term, of course, being “foreshadowing.”

Starter for first and fourth periods

Foreshadowing (initial work)

Second and seventh periods did a Magic Squares puzzle in anticipation of starting Monster on Monday.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • complete Great Expectations through chapter 30;
  • work to analyze the second sentence from the starter: “It was easy to make sure that as yet he knew me no more than if he had never seen me in his life.”
  • add entries to the theme database (at the Moodle site) so that you have 20 from the first 30 chapters.