Massachusetts pupils enjoy their Dickens!

Karen Baynes (English Language Arts Supervisor Duxbury Public Schools) sends us this:

I teach Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition to high school seniors at a suburban school in eastern Massachusetts.  (I am also one of the original co-founders and sometime member of the Greater Boston Dickens Fellowship.)  My students and I just finished a reading of David Copperfield. One activity we did during this unit was create "found poems" about some of the characters. (Students were asked to create poems from important and revealing quotes.) Students then illustrated their poems with drawings by Kyd or Phiz.

We thought you might like to see their poems. You can find them in this Google folder.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v0J_PJ5bMLdRFdO8LOtdh85RlPv4TOWY?usp=sharing

Below is an illustration of Dickens (copy of Maclise's portrait) with surrounding characters done by one of my students.

Please consider sharing these with your fellowship members.  And, if any of you or your members would like to write back, however briefly, I would be very grateful! The students would be thrilled to hear your comments on their work, on the characters themselves, and/or on the novel in general.