First period completed their debates. One student volunteered to tally the votes and see whom the class chose as the best debaters.
Second period worked a little more on Great Expectations before watching a PBS version of the film. We watched the scene in which Pip first meets Miss Havisham, and we compared our own visions [...]

Second period began a small series of lessons on foreshadowing. It’s intended to help students see how authors in general and Dickens in particular use foreshadowing; additionally, students will be learning how to identify clues that could be foreshadowing.
First, fourth, and sixth periods continued their debates. Sixth period finished; fourth period lacks two debates and [...]

First, fourth, and sixth periods began their debates. We just barely got started in first period; fourth and sixth periods made a fair amount of progress. Sixth period, in fact, will most definitely finish tomorrow; fourth period might have to pick it back up after spring break.
Second period discussed the surprises of chapters 8-10 in [...]

Second period  went over chapter seven in groups, discussing the themes we’ll be tracing throughout the book. We also began a list of characters, as Dickens’ novels can be a bit on the character-rich side.
We also read aloud the opening of chapter eight, in which Miss Havisham is introduced. “She’s crazy” seemed to be the [...]

First, fourth, and sixth periods are taking breaks from their Publish projects. First period, in fact, will be spending no more class time on projects; fourth and sixth will have one more day in the library.
First, fourth, and sixth periods are working on debate preparations. We’re doing a very quick unit on persuasive speaking this [...]