Day Fourteen GE

Do Now: How would you rate Pip’s hosting abilities? Do any influences (i.e., Wemmick or Jaggers) rub off on him?

Today's Learning Target: 
I will be able to observe how film adaptations of novels make interpretations from their source material.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can compare and contrast the original episode of Joe's meeting with Pip with Cuaron's adaptation.
-I can observe three choices the director makes that are accurate visual portrayals of Dickens's text.

Agenda:

1. Chapters 27-28
2. Cuaron's Great Expectations: Adaptation as Interpretation
3. Compare/Contrast paragraphs
4. Exit Ticket: What connection most stands out to you?

HW: Please read and annotate chapter 29 and post on the blog (greatexpectations9h.blogspot.com).

Day Thirteen GE

Do Now: Pip encounters many people in London. Among this cast of characters, who is a positive influence and why? A negative influence?

Today's Learning Target: 
I will be able to define juxtaposition and describe how Dickens uses this device in chapters 25 and 26 (and beyond!).
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can explain the purpose of juxtaposing Wemmick's dinner for Pip with Jaggers's.
-I can locate another example of juxtaposition in the novel and consider what it reveals about Pip or one of the novel's big ideas.

Agenda:

1. Juxtaposition: the contiguous (i.e., side by side) positioning of either two images, characters, objects, or two scenes in sequence, in order to compare and contrast them, or establish a relationship between them.
2. Chapters 25-26
3. Drafting a compare/contrast paragraph
4. Exit Ticket: How would Pip fare as a host?

HW: read and annotate chapters 27-28 and post a question or comment on the class blog (greatexpectations9h.blogspot.com). 

Day Twelve GE

Do Now: Compare and contrast the way the Pocket children are brought up with how Pip is brought up and how Estella is brought up.

Today's Learning Target: 
I will be able to define irony and recognize where it has shown up in Great Expectations.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can distinguish between irony and coincidence.
-I can point out why irony is an appropriate device for coming-of-age novels and locate at least two examples of it in Great Expectations. 

Agenda:

1. Chapters 23-24
2. Irony
3. What should a host do?
4. Exit Ticket: Do you have a better or worse understanding of irony? Explain.

HW: read and annotate chapters 25-26 and post a question or comment on the class blog (greatexpectations9h.blogspot.com). 

Day Eleven GE

Do Now: "...as to the business of being profound, that it is with writers as with wells - a person with good eyes may see to the bottom of the deepest, provided any water be there: and often when there is nothing in the world at the bottom besides dryness and dirt, though it be but a yard and a-half under-ground, it shall pass, however, for wondrous deep upon no wiser reason than because it is wondrous dark."                                                              
-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, (1704)

Who/what does Pip assume is "wondrous deep" simply because "it is wondrous dark"?

Today's Learning Target: 
I will be able to define irony and recognize where it has shown up in Great Expectations.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can distinguish between irony and coincidence.
-I can point out why irony is an appropriate device for coming-of-age novels and locate at least two examples of it in Great Expectations. 

Agenda:

1. Chapters 20-22
2. Irony notes
3. Looking for examples related to your assigned topic/motif
4. Exit Ticket: Can you think of an example of irony from another coming-of-age story?

HW: read and annotate chapters 23-24 and post a question or comment on the class blog (greatexpectations9h.blogspot.com).

Test on Chapters 1-19

"And the communication that I have got to make is, that you have Great Expectations."

Best wishes on the test! When you are finished, please check your work, hand in the test, and begin the next reading assignment.

Homework: read and annotate chapters 20-22 (think about Pip's expectations of London and look for examples of motifs). Post one of your annotations (i.e., a question, an observation, a connection, etc.) on our Great Expectations discussion forum: greatexpectations9h.blogspot.com

Day Ten GE

Do Now: Is the desk you are sitting at real? How do you know?

Today's Learning Target: 
I will be able to understand Plato's allegory of the cave and connect the concept to Great Expectations.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can describe in my own words what Plato's cave is about.
-I can make a connection between the enlightenment Plato discusses in his text and Great Expectations.

Agenda:

1. Plato's Cave: In the dark or seeing the light?
2. Test Review (review materials on pp. 7-10 of linked document)
3. Part I: Pip's Development http://greatexpectations9h.blogspot.com/
4. Exit Ticket: In one word, describe Pip as he is bound for London at the end of Part I.

HW: use the review materials to study for the test and post a comment or question on the discussion blog (feel free to respond to one another's comments/questions). Also, read chapter 20.

Important upcoming dates: 
-First class of next week: Test on Part I (Chapters 1-19)
-student-led blog on Great Expectations

Day Nine GE

Do Now: What associations come to mind when you think about the novel's title: Great Expectations?

Today's Learning Target: 
I will be able to trace Pip's development from the churchyard of Chapter 1 to the London-bound coach of Chapter 19.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can create a timeline showing important events in Pip's life during this span.
-I can make an assertion statement using a subordinating conjunction that claims what values of Pip's have changed in this time and which remain.

Agenda:

1. Chapters 18-19
2. Part I: Pip's Development http://greatexpectations9h.blogspot.com/
3. Test Review Materials (on pp. 7-10 of linked document)
4. Exit Ticket: The most memorable moment of book one is...

HW: read and annotate the allegory of the cave excerpt from Plato's Republic or watch this short video that illustrates Plato's allegory of the cave and take notes on it. Bring in at least one question you have or one connection you can make to Great Expectations. 

Important upcoming assignments: 

-Friday, 6 December: Test on Part I (Chapters 1-19)  Test postponed to 12/9 for purple and 12/10 for green

-student-led blog on Great Expectations