Miss Havisham and
her family
Miss
Havisham, wealthy spinster
who takes Pip on as a companion and whom Pip suspects is his benefactor. Miss
Havisham does not discourage this as it fits into her own spiteful plans. She
later apologizes to him as she's overtaken by guilt. He accepts her apology and
she is badly burnt when her dress catches aflame from a spark which leapt from
the fire. Pip saves her, but she later dies from her injuries.
Estella
(Havisham), Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, whom Pip pursues
romantically throughout the novel. She is secretly the daughter of Molly,
Jaggers' housekeeper, and Abel Magwitch, Pip's convict, but was given up to Miss
Havisham after a murder trial. Estella represents the life of wealth and culture
for which Pip strives. Since her ability to love has been ruined by Miss
Havisham, she is unable to return Pip's passion. She warns Pip of this
repeatedly, but he is unwilling or unable to believe her. At one point, Estella
is walking up some iron stairs representing how she is of a higher class than
Pip when in fact she is of the same class.
Arthur (Havisham), Miss Havisham's half-brother, who felt he was
shortchanged in his inheritance by their father's preference for his daughter.
He joined with Compeyson in the scheme to cheat Miss Havisham of large sums of
money by gaining Miss Havisham's trust through promise of marriage to Compeyson.
Arthur is haunted by the memory of the scheme and sickens and dies in a
delirium, imagining that the still-living Miss Havisham is in his room, coming
to kill him. Arthur has died before the beginning of the novel and gambled
heavily, being drunk quite often.
Matthew Pocket, a cousin of Miss Havisham's. He is the patriarch of
the Pocket family, but unlike others of her relatives he is not greedy for
Havisham's wealth. Matthew Pocket has a family of nine children, two nurses, a
housekeeper, a cook, and a pretty but useless wife (named Belinda). He also
tutors young gentlemen, such as Bentley Drummle, Startop, Pip, and his own son
Herbert, who live on his estate.
Herbert Pocket, a member of the Pocket family, Miss Havisham's
presumed heirs, whom Pip first meets as a "pale young gentleman" who challenges
Pip to a fist fight at Miss Havisham's house when both are children. He is the
son of Matthew Pocket, Pip's tutor in the "gentlemanly" arts, and shares his
apartment with Pip in London, becoming Pip's fast friend who is there to share
Pip's happiness as well as his troubles. He is in love with a girl called Clara.
Herbert keeps it secret because he knows his mother would say she is below his
"station".
Camilla, an ageing, talkative relative of Miss Havisham who does not
care much for Miss Havisham and only wants her money. She is one of the many
relatives who hang around Miss Havisham "like flies" for her wealth.
Cousin Raymond, another ageing relative of Miss Havisham who is only
interested in her money. He is married to Camilla.
Georgiana, an ageing relative of Miss Havisham who is only interested
in her money.
Sarah Pocket, "a dry, brown corrugated old woman, with a small face
that might have been made out of walnut shells, and a large mouth like a cat's
without the whiskers." Another ageing relative of Miss Havisham who is only
interested in her money
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Characters from Pip's youth The Convict, an escapee from a prison ship, whom Pip treats kindly, and who turns out to be his benefactor, at which time his real name is revealed to be Abel Magwitch, but who is also known as Provis and Mr. Campbell in parts of the story to protect his identity. Pip also covers him as his uncle in order that no one recognizes him as a convict sent to Australia years before. Abel Magwitch, the convict's given name, who is also Pip's benefactor. Provis, a name that Abel Magwitch uses when he returns to London, to conceal his identity. Pip also says that "Provis" is his uncle visiting from out of town. Mr. Campbell, a name that Abel Magwitch uses after he is discovered in London by his enemy. Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, simple folk who think they are more important than they really are. They live in Pip's village. Mr. Wopsle, the clerk of the church in Pip's village. He later gives up the church work and moves to London to pursue his ambition to be an actor, even though he is not very good. Mr. Waldengarver, the stage name that Mr. Wopsle adopts as an actor in London. Biddy, Mr. Wopsle's second cousin; she runs an evening school from her home in Pip's village and becomes Pip's teacher. A kind and intelligent but poor young woman, she is, like Pip and Estella, an orphan. She is the opposite of Estella. Pip ignores her obvious love for him as he fruitlessly pursues Estella. After he realizes the error of his life choices, he returns to claim Biddy as his bride, only to find out she has married Joe Gargery. Biddy and Joe later have two children, one named after Pip whom Estella mistakes as Pip's child in the original ending. Orlick was attracted to her, but his affection was unreciprocated
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If you believed the media shock jocks, every kid on the internet is either an idiot or in great peril. But I want to tell a different story starring my daughter, her best friend and a small group of friends ( including my opportunistic son!). This is a completely different story that highlights the amazing opportunities that today's available technology offers our students. It's also a story about how, if given the freedom, children will take what we 'make' them do at school and take it to a whole new level that the limited minds of us teachers don't even plan for. It explains why student led learning can be a success if we don't restrict our students from going beyond our stated objectives. It shows how true engagement doesn't need a teacher or a classroom for children to achieve great things and how technology can allow young students follow their dreams with the restrictions we had in the past.
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"During one of the standard visits to see family and friends recently, I came across a childhood game that had captured the imaginations of many a youngster in my generation…Scalextrics! A friend of mine had bought the classic car racing game for his five-year old son and I could not turn down the opportunity of a race…with the reasoning of showing my 11-month old daughter how it works ***cough, cough***."
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"A four-week lockout of teachers from schools in Denmark has come to an end. In central Copenhagen, where I live, my daughter and her classmates gleefully cycled to school on their first day back. The month-long closure has led to schools being valued even more highly by the more than 556,000 pupils and about 50,000 teachers who were affected. "
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School's back, and so is Big Homework. Here's what my 7th grade daughter has to do tonight: 1 Math review sheet 1 Science essay French vocab for possible quiz History reading and questionairre English reading and note-taking About two hours, give or take. This is considered a pretty light load, so as to ramp up gently. Over the next few weeks, it will get up to three hours or more.
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Symbaloo has grown to become one of my most used tools. I am continuously blown away by its capabilities. My daughters and my husband are all now avid Symbaloo users. We've explored the Symbaloo main function as well as its Firefox Add-on that makes adding bookmarks to Symbaloo very easy but now it is time for us to explore the Social Media component to Symbaloo.
Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 9 views
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"AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15. 05.04.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION Click to Open Overlay Gallery Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it. At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird. On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about. Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say. And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat
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World's Greatest Math and Science Rap - 177 views
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Hilarious! I passed this along to my daughter-in-law, the high school bio and chem teacher.
There's No Place Like Home - 22 views
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And it is distressing to come home and not know where I am
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Superimposed over that geography, like a Jackson Pollock painted on a fishnet, is the geography of a man’s life, the griefs and pleasures of various streets,
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The Associated Press: Schools urge parents not to take kids to work - 11 views
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At schools where standardized tests aren't being given that day, the exams may be looming. Student test scores have become increasingly important to public schools since the 2002 No Child Left Behind law was enacted, linking standardized test results to federal funding
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But McKecuen, from the Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Foundation, said the event gives students a chance to see the connection between what they learn in school and the skills they will need as adults. He said it also can spark children's interest in careers they might not have considered or known about.
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students missed our classes and struggled to stay caught up.
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As we roam around the class, we notice the students developing their own collaborative groups. Students are helping each other learn instead of relying on the teacher as the sole disseminator of knowledge.
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mothers of moderate and high-risk females more often reported that they thought their daughters had been overweight at some time during their lives than mothers of comparison group females
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was also concerned about her students’ lack of engagement — so few were completing the assignments she emailed to parents
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Playing with her family’s laundry marked the first time Maliah seemed happy — actually happy — since the start of the pandemic.
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Nobody should ever be penalized or put at a disadvantage for the supplies they don’t have,” Dillingham thought to herself. “But everyone’s got laundry!”
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