Pacing Guide:
There are 59 chapters & ~451 pages in Great Expectations.
We will spend 30 days on Great Expectations. Use the pacing guide below to pace your reading so that you will be finished by the end of the month and so that you will be ready for the quizzes each Friday. 14 pages/day - or - 2 chapters/day |
Student Exemplars:
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Great Expectations Audiobook Part 1:
Part 1: Chapter 1: 00:00:00 Chapter 2: 00:11:30 Chapter 3: 00:32:13 chapter 4: 00:43:03 chapter 5: 01:03:48 chapter 6: 01:26:47 chapter 7: 01:31:16 chapter 8: 01:54:26 chapter 9: 02:23:02 chapter 10: 02:39:06 chapter 11: 02:54:19 chapter 12: 03:24:24 chapter 13: 03:37:31 chapter 14: 03:55:02 Chapter 15: 4:00:10 Chapter 16: 4:25:01 Chapter 17: 4:36:48 Chapter 18: 4:55:37 Chapter 19: 5:25:26 Chapter 20: 5:58:20 Chapter 21: 6:16:15 Chapter 22: 6:26:25 Chapter 23: 6:54:41 Chapter 24: 7:13:16 Chapter 25: 7:26:01 Chapter 26: 7:42:14 Chapter 27: 7:58:22 Chapter 28: 8:16:00 Chapter 29: 8:29:35 Chapter 30: 8:58:26
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Great Expectations Audiobook Part 2:
Part 2: Chapter 31 0:00 Chapter 32 12:58 Chapter 33 25:58 Chapter 34 41:48 Chapter 35 55:32 Chapter 36 1:13:38 Chapter 37 1:29:01 Chapter 38 1:45:14 Chapter 39 2:14:32 Chapter 40 2:41:03 Chapter 41 3:09:54 Chapter 42 3:21:58 Chapter 44 3:49:06 Chapter 45 4:06:15 Chapter 46 4:23:10 Chapter 47 4:40:23 Chapter 48 4:54:59 Chapter 49 5:10:29 Chapter 50 5:32:08 Chapter 51 5:41:20 Chapter 52 5:59:34 Chapter 53 6:11:53 Chapter 54 6:42:02 Chapter 55 7:14:20 Chapter 56 7:30:30 Chapter 57 7:43:03 Chapter 58 8:10:25 Chapter 59 8:27:45
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Great Expectations Assignment Directions:
You will create a reading log with the class. Then, you will be assigned (or you may be assigned to pick) 1 of the guiding questions assignments below to respond to in your reading log. You will be responsible for keeping up with you reading outside of class, as well as with using the audio book above responsibly. Because this is an ongoing assignment that will take about a month to complete, and because much of the reading and writing will be done on your own at home, no extensions to this assignment will be given. You are expected to keep up with your reading and writing outside of school even if you are absent from the class!
Great Expectations Guiding Questions 1
Directions: As you read the novel, you will keep a log (that is, a record) of your journey through it. Log entries will consist of such things as chapter summaries; comments on the action of the story, characters, language, themes, and so forth; and your personal reactions to those elements of the story. For every other 2 chapters that you read (1-2, 5-6, 9-10, etc.), choose one of the questions below to respond to it on the blank lines at the bottom half of each page of you reading log. You may NOT choose to respond to the same question that you used on the previous log entry. Once you have finished the novel, you should have responded to each question at least twice.
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Great Expectations Guiding Questions 2
Directions: For every other 2 chapters that you read (1-2, 5-6, 9-10, etc.), choose two of the questions below for each of the chapters listed to respond to on the blank lines at the bottom half of each page of your reading log. If there is only one question offered then respond to that question. Your responses should be written in complete sentences, and should reflect good academic writing.
(1) Chapter 1:
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(2) Chapter 2:
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(3) Chapter 3:
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(4) Chapter 7:
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(5) Chapter 8:
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(6) Chapter 9:
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(8) Chapter 12:
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(10) Chapter 18:
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(11) Chapter 19:
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(12) Chapter 22:
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(13) Chapter 29:
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(14) Chapter 33:
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(16) Chapter 39:
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(17) Chapter 44:
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(18) Chapter 49:
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Great Expectations Guiding Question(s) 3: Expectations Journal
Directions: In this novel, things are often not what they seem. Discuss how the theme of "expectations" is illustrated by and through the major characters in this book. How are Pip's expectations different from and similar to those of Joe Gargery, Miss Havisham, Estella, and Magwitch? How do the expectations that the major characters in this book have for themselves and for others evolve as the text progresses? How do these expectations help forward the plot and help shape character development? Are these various expectations ever unfair or unrealistic? This assignment may be done instead of, or in addition to, the guiding question assignments above. Students should use the space in the reading log normally reserved for their guiding question responses to keep an ongoing record of the theme of expectations in the novel. This question of expectations will be more relevant for some chapters than for others, as the story develops, therefore students may choose which chapters they feel would be most appropriate to stop and respond to. However, students must respond in their Expectations Journal a total of 8 times with their final entry being a response to one of the two endings to the novel.
Great Expectations Guiding Questions 4: Socratic Discussion Questions from Oprah
1. In this novel, things are often not what they seem. Discuss how the theme of "expectations" is illustrated by and through the major characters in this book. How are Pip's expectations different from and similar to those of Joe Gargery, Miss Havisham, Estella, and Magwitch?
2. Why do you think it is one of Magwitch's principal conditions that Pip "always bear the name of Pip" (which is actually his childhood nickname) in order to receive his financial support? 3. If Pip had not received his "great expectations" and never left Joe's forge, how do you think his life would have been different? Are the lessons he learns during his physical and emotinal journey necessary for him to arrive at the wisdom he displays as the middle-aged narrator of this tale? In what ways? 4. Why do you think Miss Havisham manipulates and misleads Pip into thinking she is his secret benefactor? What, if anything, does she derive from this action? 5. Given Dickens' portrayal of Estella, What do you think attracts Pip to her in the first place, and what, when he learns of her cold-blooded manipulation of men, keeps Pip devoted to her until the end, loving her, as he says, "against reason, against promise, against epace"? (page 594) 6. In the final chapter, Estella says to Pip: "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching." (page 834) Discuss the theme of suffering in this book - specifically how it instructs Pip, Miss Havisham and Estella. 7. In chapter 49, Miss Havisham confesses to Pip that in adopting Estella, she "meant to save her (Estella) from misery like my own." (page 753) Do you believe this, given Dickens' harsh characterization of Miss Havisham throughout the novel? 8. In chapter 49, when MIss Havisham is set on fire, do you believe that, given her state of mind, Dickens intends us to read this as an accident ora s a kind of penance/attempted suicide on her part for her cruelty to Pip and Estella? 9. What do you think makes Pip change his opinion of his benefactor Magwitch from one of the initial repugnance to one of the deep and abiding respect and love? 10. In chapter 59, when Pip places Joe and Biddy's son (also named Pip) on the same tombstone that opens the novel, what do you think Dickens intends to tell us with this image? Given the novel's theme of how the sins of others are visited upon us, do you view this image as a foreboding one in a way? |
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