These help students work through writing an explanatory essay analyzing how Dickens shows Pip’s fear and creates an atmosphere of tension in the opening chapters of Great Expectations.May also be used for 11th and 12th graders. Aligned to Common Core State Standard: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.7
Great Expectations Explanatory Essay
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Grades 9-12
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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
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