This study guide is designed to lead you through the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, taking you through each chapter and highlighting important questions which need to be answered if readers are to have a full grasp of the text.
Teachers will find the guide useful for in class or at home work. Students will find the guide useful as a way to come to grips with the text. There are both short answer-type questions and more involved short essay questions. Many of the questions can also be used for discussion.
The longer essay questions are designed to develop the student’s skills in comparing and contrasting and referring to specific parts of the text to support their assertions.
The next section of the guide contains samples essay questions, with outlines. They can be used as a general guide, or to structure your own essays for class. Teachers will find them useful as questions to set for their students for both class and home work and for examination preparation as well.
The final section of the book contains a full sample essay designed to show you how to structure a focused, targeted essay and use textual citations correctly.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Siobhan McNally is a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of New York University, where she received her B.A. in English Literature. She received her Master’s Degree in Renaissance English Literature from the University of Sussex, England. She has over twenty years of experience teaching at the secondary and tertiary levels in schools all over the world, is a prolific writer of both academic material and historical novels, and is the founder of English Study Buddy Guides and the author of a variety of study guides.
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