*This will be your first semester of Final Exams at a College Preparatory High School. What should you be doing to prepare?
1. Questions about the Study Guide?
2. Great Expectations Review--
What happens to Miss Havisham? What could this symbolize?
What is the state of Pip's finances? How can we tell?
What more do we learn about Magwitch, Mollly, and Estella?
3. Essay work. Below is the prompt and paragraph guide.
*Be sure to use your reminders checklist.
*Here is a skeleton for your paragraphs--
I. Introduction – keep it short and sweet: 3-5 sentences
A. Attention getter – hook - exordium
B. Background information: TAG (author, title, genre), short summary (transition to thesis)
C. Thesis: Argument + Evidence; in parallel structure
II. Body Paragraph 1
A. Topic sentence: Argument + One Evidence from Thesis
- Introduce your evidence
- Commentary (at least twice as long as the evidence) - Explain how and/or why the evidence proves your argument. NO PLOT SUMMARY.
- Commentary (as defined above)
III. Body Paragraph 2 – follow the structure of Body Paragraph 1
IV. Body Paragraph 3– follow the structure of Body Paragraph 1
V. Conclusion
A. Restate your argument – hint: reword your thesis (do not repeat it).
B. Answer the “so what?” Wrap up why your essay idea was important (worthy of reading)
C. End with a Concluding Statement: universal truth, global statement or call to action
5. How should people respond to class distinctions in your home town? Select a specific audience, identify what the class distinctions in your home town are and why they exist, and write an essay in which you create a persuasive argument about what should be done. Anticipate at least one counter-argument. Use evidence from Great Expectations, personal experience, history, or society to defend your argument.
Questions to answer for brainstorming--
--What class divisions/distinctions exist in your hometown?
--Why do they exist?
--How can these divisions be broken down? What must change?
--What is a specific audience you can target that has power over this change?
--How can you persuade this audience to take action toward change?
--List out evidence from Great Expectations that may prove helpful.
Write a 5-paragraph persuasive essay that responds to this print.
INTRO--address audience, identify the issue, and state main argument.
Body 1--Assert an argument with evidence.
Body 2--Assert an argument with evidence.
Body 3--Anticipate a counter-argument, and defend with evidence from Great Expectations.
Conclusion--re-address the argument, summarize the described perspective on the issue, restate main argument, and create a call to action.
HW--Finish Rough Draft of Persuasive Essay (typed, MLA format), and submit to turnitin.com assignment for the rough draft.
Finish Independent Reading by Block Day
Read GE Ch. 53-55. To get a handle on the key events, here are good chapter summaries of 53 & 54 to supplement your reading--
CHAPTER 53, PAGES 425-437
PLOT DEVELOPMENT: With trepidation, Pip makes his way through the dark, misty marsh as a “melancholy wind” blows. He sees a light in the sluice-house of an abandoned quarry, but no one answers when he knocks. He goes inside to get out of the rain. Almost immediately, his candle goes out, he is accosted from behind, and a noose is thrown over his head. As his abductor strikes a flint, Pip recognizes Orlick, who plans to get revenge by killing him. Pip fears that if Orlick succeeds, Magwitch will think he has abandoned him, Joe and Biddy won’t know how sorry he is for his behavior, and even Herbert will doubt his motives. Orlick admits that he killed Mrs. Joe to get back at Pip and that he was hiding in the shadows the night Magwitch returned. As he drinks more whiskey, Orlick becomes increasingly ferocious, threatening to reveal the truth about “Uncle Provis” from whom he had stolen the leg-irons that he later used to kill Pip’s sister. Just as Orlick lifts his stone hammer to kill Pip, Pip shouts and is rescued by Herbert, Startop, and Trabb’s boy. Pip learns that Herbert had located him after he found the letter sent to him by Orlick and assumed that it had dropped out of his pocket. Pip decides to delay reporting Orlick to a magistrate because it is late Monday and they must move Magwitch Wednesday. Instead, they return to London. Pip has trouble sleeping, thinking that every noise is someone coming to tell him Magwitch has been taken.
CHAPTER 54, PAGES 438-451
PLOT DEVELOPMENT: Pip, Startop, and Herbert set out on the congested Thames. They pick up a thankful Magwitch at Clara’s house. Like a poet, Magwitch compares life to a river with a murky bottom and tides that cannot be controlled. Indeed, as they stop for the night at a squalid inn, they learn from a servant that a boat has been hovering near the inn. As a precaution, Pip and Magwitch sneak out early in the morning and meet their rowboat further down the river. As they row for the German vessel that can take Magwitch to freedom, they are hailed by another boat and ordered to deliver Magwitch over, as he is under arrest. Magwitch recognizes Compeyson in the other boat, who, frightened by his old partner, tumbles into the water, followed instantly by Magwitch. The two tangle in the water, but only Magwitch surfaces. He says he did not kill Compeyson, though he would if he could, but Compeyson does not reappear. Magwitch has injured his chest, and Pip notices that his breathing seems troubled. He gets permission to accompany Magwitch to London. By now, Pip feels nothing but gratitude and love for his benefactor and pledges to be true to him. He realizes that officers for the crown will confiscate all of Magwitch’s wealth.
Finish Independent Reading by Block Day
Read GE Ch. 53-55. To get a handle on the key events, here are good chapter summaries of 53 & 54 to supplement your reading--
CHAPTER 53, PAGES 425-437
PLOT DEVELOPMENT: With trepidation, Pip makes his way through the dark, misty marsh as a “melancholy wind” blows. He sees a light in the sluice-house of an abandoned quarry, but no one answers when he knocks. He goes inside to get out of the rain. Almost immediately, his candle goes out, he is accosted from behind, and a noose is thrown over his head. As his abductor strikes a flint, Pip recognizes Orlick, who plans to get revenge by killing him. Pip fears that if Orlick succeeds, Magwitch will think he has abandoned him, Joe and Biddy won’t know how sorry he is for his behavior, and even Herbert will doubt his motives. Orlick admits that he killed Mrs. Joe to get back at Pip and that he was hiding in the shadows the night Magwitch returned. As he drinks more whiskey, Orlick becomes increasingly ferocious, threatening to reveal the truth about “Uncle Provis” from whom he had stolen the leg-irons that he later used to kill Pip’s sister. Just as Orlick lifts his stone hammer to kill Pip, Pip shouts and is rescued by Herbert, Startop, and Trabb’s boy. Pip learns that Herbert had located him after he found the letter sent to him by Orlick and assumed that it had dropped out of his pocket. Pip decides to delay reporting Orlick to a magistrate because it is late Monday and they must move Magwitch Wednesday. Instead, they return to London. Pip has trouble sleeping, thinking that every noise is someone coming to tell him Magwitch has been taken.
CHAPTER 54, PAGES 438-451
PLOT DEVELOPMENT: Pip, Startop, and Herbert set out on the congested Thames. They pick up a thankful Magwitch at Clara’s house. Like a poet, Magwitch compares life to a river with a murky bottom and tides that cannot be controlled. Indeed, as they stop for the night at a squalid inn, they learn from a servant that a boat has been hovering near the inn. As a precaution, Pip and Magwitch sneak out early in the morning and meet their rowboat further down the river. As they row for the German vessel that can take Magwitch to freedom, they are hailed by another boat and ordered to deliver Magwitch over, as he is under arrest. Magwitch recognizes Compeyson in the other boat, who, frightened by his old partner, tumbles into the water, followed instantly by Magwitch. The two tangle in the water, but only Magwitch surfaces. He says he did not kill Compeyson, though he would if he could, but Compeyson does not reappear. Magwitch has injured his chest, and Pip notices that his breathing seems troubled. He gets permission to accompany Magwitch to London. By now, Pip feels nothing but gratitude and love for his benefactor and pledges to be true to him. He realizes that officers for the crown will confiscate all of Magwitch’s wealth.
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