Great Expectations- Charles Dickens- Miss Havisham Analysis

A lesson originally created for a mixed ability year 9 class but can easily be adapted for your own class. This lesson explores the use of language in the character Havisham from Great Expectations. Taught as part of a 'History of the English Language topic" but can also be used as a great expectations scheme or other language analysis topic.

-Context of Great Expectations/Charles Dickens
-Creative writing from Havisham's perspective
-YouTube clips to BBC adaptation
-Extract - to annotate with class or individually
-Model answer to the question "How does Dickens use language to present Miss Havisham?"
-Supported sentence starters to enable students to answer the question
-Peer assessment