Great Expectations Lesson Plan

Life Graph

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will create a life graph of events in Pip's life.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.5 ; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7

Structure:

This Life Graph activity allows students to visually represent the trajectory of Pip's life through the course of the book. The students will first review the major events in Pip's life, thinking over the course of the novel, from the beginning to the end. Students can then use the graph as a way of putting those events into a general perspective.

1. As a class, students should come up with a list of events that occur in Pip's life, from the beginning of the book...