1. Charles Dickens and Great Expectations

2. Who’s Charles Dickens?

3. Much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature.
He was a Victorian author based in the 1800s.
His writings are considered epic stories with vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life.

4. Timeline - His father was a naval clerk who dreamed to be rich.
was born in Portsmouth, England.
- His father was a naval clerk who dreamed to be rich.
- His mother wanted to become a teacher and a school director.
Dickens and his family moved to Kent, England.

5. - 1822 the Dickens family moved to a poor neighborhood called Camden Town in London.
Charles’ father was sent to preson for debt.
- Charles was forced to leave school and to start working at a boot- blacking factory.
he drop out of school again to support his family.
he began to send sketches to various magazines and newspapers.
his first book sketches by Buzz is published.

6. - Dickens had 10 children with Catherine Hogarth.
he got divorced.
- His first novel was Oliver Twist.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
Barnaby Rudge
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
-1859 A Tale of Two Cities
Great Espectations is released.
he had a stroke and died in Kent, England