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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
by MonaA read-along companion to Dickens's Great Expectations. Each lesson deepens the chapters you've just read — guilt, shame, class, and what truly makes a gentleman — while training you to read like a writer, one skill at a time.
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Reading Along: The Three Stages of Pip
Lesson 1
The Boy Who Felt Guilty for Being Kind
Pip remembers fear, kindness, and guilt. Hear the child and the later narrator in the same original words, and test how each shapes the story.
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The House Where Time Stopped
Read Chapters 8–13.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 3
Be Careful What You Wish For
Read Chapters 14–19.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 4
A Gentleman in Training
Read Chapters 20–26.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 5
The Visitor Pip Was Ashamed Of
Read Chapters 27–35.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 6
A Knock in the Night
Read Chapters 36–39.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 7
Everything He Believed, Undone
Read Chapters 40–46.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 8
Fire and Reckonings
Read Chapters 47–53.
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What the Ending Earns
Read Chapters 54–59.
Locked till you take the prior lessonStepping Back: The Whole Book
Lesson 10
What Makes a Gentleman?
With the whole novel read, test a debatable claim about gentility using Herbert, Magwitch, Compeyson, Joe, and Pip.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 11
Made by Others
Compare Miss Havisham's shaping of Estella with Magwitch's sponsorship of Pip.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 12
What the Final Scene Leaves Open
Read Chapter 59 closely alongside Chapters 8, 44, and 56.
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