7 school days left Since we have created quite a few Dickens fans in the classes that have been reading Great Expectations, I had a little idea to change up the lesson plans for the week and write some fan fiction since not everyone was pleased with the way the...
10 school days left As our last group of starters, we began some sentence diagramming today. Most classes spent about 15 minutes on it before moving to Great Expectations character presentations. In school I always felt a little like a freak because while...
11 school days left We continued working on Great Expectations today as we enter the final few chapters of the novel. Our focus today was a return to foreshadowing as we looked at how a careful reader, knowing Dickens’s penchant for coincidence, can use...
14 school days left Students today presented their findings on the various characters they analyzed over the last couple of days. While it was not part of the plan, most of the groups that went covered Estella and Miss Havisham, although one group covered Herbert...
16 school days left Students began working today on a more in-depth analysis of characters based on the discussions students had about characters yesterday and Monday. They’ll be working on this again tomorrow before beginning presentations on Friday....
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