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.
“QUOTATION SANDWICHES”
Quotation Sandwiches
Introduce your quote.
Insert your quote.
Comment on how your quote demonstrates your claim.
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 55-58
of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.
