This is a quick posting for Mike and all the others who have requested more details of the Great Expectations GCSE assignment that I alluded to in my posting entitled, “Little bits of learning”. If you haven’t read it, then this is going to make very little sense – actually – come to think of it – if you haven’t read it, WHY NOT? 
The main resources (including an assignment plan) that I use when teaching this sequence can be found by clicking the link below. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, Box.net is once again playing up. So, fingers crossed first then click below. You should get to a folder with six resources in it that you may download and adapt.
Briefly, the resources are: chapter 1; chapter 39; a summary of the whole text; a worksheet on chapter one; a short model text; and the assignment plan. Reading this plan it should be clear than the teaching sequence includes homework that is designed to feed into the essay sequence (thus giving less motivated students a reason to do it!).
Keep those fingers crossed and click here.
My original posting on Great Expectations is here – Little bits of learning.
Have really enjoyed reading about your ideas for teaching English. Am really interested in the Great Expectations coursework. Maybe I’m being stupid but I can’t find the initial discussion you presented and I’ve trawled through pages of blogs under various headings. Can you advise me how to find it fairly quickly. I found the second post and it sounded interesting and I’ve downloaded the resources, but would like to read your original ideas about it. Would you email me? Thanks for all the interesting ideas here.
Good Morning Melanie. I’m glad you enjoy the blog. I suppose the quickest way to find a topic on here is to use the ’search’ box at the top of the page but looking at it now, maybe it is a bit faint. Anyroad, the other posting is entitled ‘Little bits of learning’ and I’ve put a link at the end of this posting. I hope it’s useful.
Andrew