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2025 Summer Reading

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYodU8Gwik&list=PLdiacl_Q6LOZAv-wDvnltDYn5ZUXXvu1c

8/20 Wednesday Traditional -- First Day of School

1. Introductions, policies, grading, supplies needed, etc.

2. Parent letter (sent to your email and your parent's email)--returned signed for points

3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens -- what to expect -- read/review 3 chapters per weeknight

(Wed: 1-3; Thurs: 4-6; Fri 7-9)

expect short quiz for each reading--quiz on Friday on chapters 1-6

Homework:

a. return parent letter with signature, (parents can either print out email and sign, or email me to tell me they read the

material--make sure to include your name if last name is different or if last name is common like "Jones.")

b. review Great Expectations chapters 1-3, and 4-6, quiz next class)

Note: check the class web page daily (not google classroom) for assignments--bookmark the web page or go

to link from any google classroom assignment---google classroom will only have assignments submitted

electronically, however most writing assignments will not be electronic--thus the need to check the class web

page ;)

8/22 Friday Block

1. Great Expectations quiz chapters 1-6

2. Seating charts

3. Parent letter

4. Study sync--go to your district email, click on the 9 dot square waffle top right, click on McGraw Hill, click on the top study sync box, and click to open the assignment on the Victorian Age in History and Literature ; complete the work there by end of class.

5. Now, return to study sync and complete the assignments for Great Expectations ch. 1, due midnight

Saturday

6. Read or review the next set of Great Expectations chapters (7-9) quiz Monday

Homework:

a. Finish Study Sync work on Great Expectations ch. 1 by midnight Saturday

b. read/review Great Expectations ch. 7-9, quiz Monday

8/25 Monday Traditional

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYodU8Gwik&list=PLdiacl_Q6LOZAv-wDvnltDYn5ZUXXvu1c

1. Great Expectations quiz ch. 7-9

2. Quote gathering for Great Expectations Essay--submit what you have by end of period:

your essay thesis topic is: Pip evolves from a callow child into a thoughtful and responsible adult through

the life lessons he learns. Your quotes should focus on 3 different ways in which Pip evolves---you are not limited to these,

but my suggestions would be: what he learns about leisured life (the life of gentleman); what he learns

about responsibility to family; and what he learns about love.

For each quote, give the age number if reading a hard copy book; give the chapter number if reading

an online version without page numbers.

3. Read/Skim Great Expectations ch. 10-12 Monday; 13-15 Tuesday

4. Vocabulary introduction (vocabulary is cumulative--each week you'll be quizzed on a few of the new words

and a few of the old words, with a semester vocabulary final that covers all).

Homework:

a. Finish above reading in Great Expectations, quiz on chapters 10-15 next class

b. vocabulary quizzes begin 9/8...go to "vocabulary" tab from web page, study first batch of words--need to spell, define, and use in a sentence---part of speech is not required, just given for your information. Quizzes are cumulative--each work quizzed on two new words and any two old words.

8/26 Wednesday Block

Great Expectations:

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYodU8Gwik&list=PLdiacl_Q6LOZAv-wDvnltDYn5ZUXXvu1c

1. Great Expectations quiz chapters 10-15

2. Quote gathering for Great Expectations--unsubmit your first quote sheet, add to it, and resubmit.

3. Study Sync: "A Modern Man from the 1800's: The Influential Life of Charles Dickens"-complete work by end of class

Homework:

a. Great Expectations- read/skim chapters Wed: 16-18, Thurs 19-21, Fri 22-24

b. finish above work

8/29 Friday Block

Great Expectations:

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYodU8Gwik&list=PLdiacl_Q6LOZAv-wDvnltDYn5ZUXXvu1c

1. Great Expectations quiz chapters 16-21

2. Great Expectations film (partial) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itQq8q9VIgg&t=3601s

3. Quote gathering for Great Expectations--add and resubmit to GC

4. Read/review Great Expectations ch. 22-24 Friday

5. Respond to the prompt with one half page double spaced and post to GC:

Of Joe and Biddy, Pip says "there was a certain touch of sadness in their congratulations (over Pip's becoming a "gentleman" that I rather resented"..."Dissatisfied with my fortune, of course I could not be; but it is possible that

I may have been, without quite knowing it, dissatisfied with myself."

Why might Pip resent their sadness?

Homework:

a. finish reading above, including chapters 25-27 for Monday; 28-30 Tues; quiz first day next week

9/3 Wednesday Block

1. Great Expectations quiz 22-30

2. Great Expectations film

3. Begin vocab study (see "vocabulary" drop down under English I H on class web page); quiz Monday on

first batch of 10 words...spell, define, and use in a sentence.

4. Quote integration how to:

5. Now unsubmit your quote list from GC, choose 4 quotes,

cut and paste the quotes into a new google doc

and integrate a part of each quote with the meaning you need into a sentence written mostly by you.

Post the new work to the GC quote integration assignment, and repost your quote list---

comments will be added to let you know how your quote integration worked.

6. Read/skim in Great Expectations: ch. 31-33 Wed; ch. 34-36 Thurs; 37-39 Fri

Homework:

a. Finish above work

b. quiz on Great Expectations 31-36 Friday

9/5 Friday Block

1. Great Expectations quiz 31-36

2. Great Expectations film

3. Add quotes to your quote list on google classroom (unsubmit your original, add, resubmit)

4. Read/Skim Great Expectations: ch. 37-39 Friday

Homework:

a. finish Great Expectations reading above

b. Study for vocab quiz Monday

9/8 Monday Traditional

1. Vocab 1 quiz

2. Begin study of vocab 2

3. Read comments on your quote integration practice if you haven't already

4. Read/Skim Great Expectations: Mon 40-42, Tues 43-45, Wed 46-48, Thurs 49-51, Fri 52-54

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYodU8Gwik&list=PLdiacl_Q6LOZAv-wDvnltDYn5ZUXXvu1c

Homework:

a. finish reading -- quiz on Great Expectations ch. 37-45 Wed.

b. begin study of vocab week 2

9/10 Wednesday Block

1. Great Expectations 37-45 quiz

2. Great Expectations reading: Wed 46-48, Thurs 49-51, Fri 52-54

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYodU8Gwik&list=PLdiacl_Q6LOZAv-wDvnltDYn5ZUXXvu1c

3. Essay outline format: Freshmen Essay Outline:

4. Essay rubric:

5. Now read a 9th graders sample essay (it may not follow the same format you will be using, but the basic needs of an essay

are the same...read the essay and look at the accompanying rubric and see if you can determine why the paper earned the grade it did:

https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1685097915/oakdalek12caus/itnusb5ilwh0wsaasp7i/1941543514440004045.pdf

6. Continue Great Expectations Reading and add quotes from last few chapters to your google classroom quote doc

7. Great Expectations film

Homework:

a. finish reading Great Expectations: Wed 46-48, Thurs 49-51, Fri 52-54, quiz Friday on 46-51

b. study vocab weeks 1-2

c. Outside reading book due for approval 9/15...must be DEI (diversity, equity, or inclusion) related and Non-fiction--consider

a biography or autobiography. Book must be grade level appropriate for approval. Get parents permission before submitting to me...you can use commonsensemedia .org to preview acceptability of various options.

9/12 Friday Block

1. Great Expectations quiz ch. 46-51

2. Great Expectations film

3. MLA style and where to find what you need:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html

4. Great Expectations reading: Wed 46-48, Thurs 49-51, Fri 52-54

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYodU8Gwik&list=PLdiacl_Q6LOZAv-wDvnltDYn5ZUXXvu1c

add quotes to your google classroom quote sheet from last few chapters (skim through end of

book for final quotes)

Homework:

1. Vocab quiz weeks 1-2 Monday

2. Finish Great Expectations reading: Fri chapters 52-54

3. ORB book due to show teacher 9/15 Monday

9/15 Monday Traditional

1. ORB due to show teacher

2. Vocab weeks 1-2 quiz

3. Skim remaining chapters (55-59) and add any good quotes to your quote sheet.

4. Great Expectations read/skim 55-57

Homework:

a. Begin study of vocab week 3

b. Finish reading skimming Great Expectations chapters: Mon. ch. 55-57; Tues ch. 58-59; quiz on 55-59 next class

c. Print out your quote sheet to use when writing the essay (by hand) and lined paper to write draft next class

(you can have only your quote sheet when writing)