Great Expectations: End of Test Review, Continuing Theme Essay Prewriting

After sharing a text from Proverbs 5, Mr. Stone finished reviewing by discussing the setting of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.

Mr. Stone then distributed three prewriting tables to each student and began discussion on how to prewrite the body paragraphs of the upcoming essay on a theme from Great Expectations.

Students are writing a five-paragraph essay in response to the following prompt.

Stated as a question: What Insight into life does Charles Dicken’s novel Great Expectations reveal?

Stated in a declarative sentence: Describe a central idea/theme revealed in Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.

(Mr. Stone discussed how sometimes prompts are presented as questions and other times as declarative sentences.)


Thematic topics in Great Expectations
Friendship
Wealth/financial gain/money
Love
Revenge
Work
Jealousy
Marriage
Manipulation/use of others
Abuse
Crime
Punishment
Expectations
Social Class
Relationship
Parents


Likely Order of Thinking for Writing Five-Paragraph Essay on a Central Idea/Theme
1. Determine thematic topic of interest.
2. Make a list of examples/Cd, from the novel
3. Consider what these examples reveal about life.
4. Select your viewpoint
5. Develop CD + CM
6. Organize your ideas
7. Draft body
8. Consider your introduction
9. Draft introduction
10. Consider conclusion
11. Draft conclusion


Homework: Finish preparing for part two of the Great Expectations test.