THE SOCIAL NETWORK OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS Western Literature May 15, 2015
THE SOCIAL NETWORK OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS As we explore characterization in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, your classmates will share their profiles for their character. When you are presenting, read your posts and the friends/likes for the character. Audience members—this may be great information to take notes on because your final is on characterization in Dickens’ novel.
PERIOD 7
“QUOTATION SANDWICHES”
QUOTATION PRACTICE #1 Write a claim about the theme of forgiveness in the novel using this quote: Remember to create a quotation sandwich! “I can do it now. There have been sore mistakes; and my life has been a blind and thankless one; and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you” (Dickens 383).
QUOTATION PRACTICE #2 Write a claim about what the following quote reveals about Pip’s character in the novel using this quote: Remember to create a quotation sandwich! “The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death” (Dickens 409).
HOMEWORK Read and “annotate” chapters of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.