Do Now: Answer the following in your notebooks. You may do this in pairs
Relationships: Chapter 19
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Trabb and Pip
Trabb’s boy and Pip
Pumblechook and Pip – what is happening between them?
Biddy and Pip (Pip’s judgment of Biddy)
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How does the reader know that Biddy understands Joe better than Pip does?
Why do you think Miss Havisham ask Sarah Pocket to stay during Pip’s visit?
What does Pip keep calling Miss Havisham?
What is happening to Pip’s character?
Who informs Pip that he has great expectations?
What are the three stipulations of the inheritance?
Who is to be Pip’s guardian while he is in London?
Who is to be Pip’s tutor while he is in London?
When Mr. Jaggers offers Joe money to compensate for the loss of Pip’s services, what does the
blacksmith do?
10. Who does Pip believe is his benefactor?
11. Why does Pip visit Mr. Trabb, the tailor?
12. How does the reader know that Biddy understands Joe better than Pip does?
13. What is Dickens making fun of through the changed behavior of Mr. Pumblechook and Mr. Trabb?
Chapter 20 Focus
What is your impression of Jaggers' skill as a lawyer? What do you base this impression on?
Country vs. City
Chapter 21 Focus:
Pip’s expectations are crushed.
Ms. Miller – English 9H – Great Expectations
responses.
Please, answer the following questions in thoughtful
Chapter 20 Focus
Look for tags. A tag is a characteristic or action of a character that Dickens focuses on and brings up
again and again.
1. Find quotes that portray:
a) Pip's first impression of London? What specific sights does he see?
b) The coachman’s opinion of Jaggers.
c) Characterization of Mike
d) Jaggers’ room
e) Jaggers’ clients’ opinion of him
f) Who are Jaggers’ clients?
 Two secret men
 Two ladies (Bill)
 Jewish man
 Mike
2. List five traits of Jaggers.
3. What is the plan for Pip?
4. What questions do you have about this chapter?
Chapter 21
1. Who is Wemmick? List five traits that Dickens gives him.
2. Why is Pip surprised when he meets Herbert Pocket who is to be his roommate?
3. How does Pip characterize Barnards Inn? Note the use of imagery and metaphor that Dickens uses to
describe the setting in Pip’s eyes. (216)
4. What questions do you have about this chapter?