Passing Notes with Great Expectations!

Hopefully everyone enjoyed the Passing Notes Activity for Chapters 31-40. I know I did!  Please take a moment and look over your original Passing Notes Sheet.  Read through the comments and think about the following questions for your blog post this week.  Please BE SURE to include the quote and chapter number somewhere in your response.

• An overview of the specific comments made-You may quote people and respond to what they wrote
• Does the quote show any or all of the following and please name it as such?
• Character development (static, flat, dynamic, round) Is the character changing and if so, how?
• A Particular Theme or Themes--How is it/they being developed through this quote?
• Conflict--name what it is and who it involves (internal/external) and explain it
• Setting--any significance of the setting?
• Anything else that you would like to comment on
• DEVELOP A THOUGHT PROVOKING QUESTION BASED ON YOUR QUOTE.  ASK IT AT THE END OF YOUR COMMENT.  
• Students may use your question to comment on 
• Your link to technology this week MAY be a link to a picture of the passing notes activity sheet; however, it doesn't have to be that!

A couple of friendly reminders:

This blog post should be posted by midnight Sunday, February 21st.  

Be sure you are following all of the previous rules and requirements of the blog.  I will be sharing an updated blog log with you to keep track of your progress on.

Reminder: Chapters 41-50 should be read by Monday, February 22nd.

Hope everyone has a great February vacation!! 

Taking the "Miss" out of Miss Havisham...(and how to do makeup to look like her too!)

So...the first thing I want to mention here is that while I was searching YouTube for different versions of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, I came across this Miss Havisham Makeup Tutorial...A makeup tutorial?? Yup! Weird no??  I wanted to share it here because I thought it was pretty strange and interesting that her enigmatic character is still relevant in our modern times.

You certainly don't have to watch the tutorial, but feel free to if you'd like:

Please watch this link to the 2012 version of Great Expectations at the point in which Pip is taken to meet Miss Havisham for the first time:


In your blog comment this week, please use the following as guiding questions, but remember you DO NOT have to answer all of them.  They should just be used as a jumping off point for your response.

I am trying to make the questions a bit more broad so that you have more freedom and creativity in your responses.

• What did you think of the casting choices in the clip you watched?
• What about the background/setting?
• Why do you think the characters Miss Havisham and Estella especially are still mentioned in our modern culture?
• Think about the female characters in Great Expectations.  Where are they located?  What are their personalities like?  What do you think Dickens is saying about gender through his characterizations of female characters in the novel?
• Is there anything else from the Socratic seminar discussions on "Havisham" that you would like to bring up or question?