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Year 10 English Literature A Christmas Carol Revision
Tuesday 12th January 2021
Learning purposes
• To recap key events from A Christmas Carol • To revisit important rela<onships in the novella • To explore the theme of family throughout the novella • h?ps://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-‐h/46-‐h.htm (link to text)
Recap of previous learning Ø On the next slides…
Future learning Ø Study of Post-‐1914 Literature – Animal Farm.
Ø Develop ability to produce whole text responses.
1. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to come enters and shows Scrooge business men discussing the death of someone, a dead body under a sheet and the Cratchit family who are mourning the death of Tiny Tim.
2. Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning with excitement and happiness. He sends a turkey to the Cratchits and a?ends Fred’s party.
3. Scrooge is shown a grave stone with his name on. 4. Scrooge sees Marley’s ghost who tells him that he must change his ways else he will walk the earth in
chains. 5. Bob Cratchit requests Christmas Day off and Scrooge begrudgingly agrees, ordering him to come in
earlier the next day. 6. Scrooge is shown Fred’s party, where they make fun of him. He’s then shown two starved children,
Ignorance and Want. 7. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew, visits him and invites Scrooge to Christmas dinner. Scrooge refuses. 8. Bob is late to work and is terrified he’ll lose his job. Scrooge pretends to be furious but raises his
salary instead. Scrooge con<nues to celebrate Christmas with all of his heart. 9. Scrooge visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past who shows Scrooge his childhood hometown, his
former self at school, Li?le Fan, Fezziwig’s party and his ex fiancée, Belle. 10. Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present who shows Scrooge the Cratchit family at
Christmas and a range of Christmas scenes, from miners to sailors.
Starter – plot recap. Put the following events in chronological order.
1. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew, visits him and invites Scrooge to Christmas dinner. Scrooge refuses. 2. Bob Cratchit requests Christmas Day off and Scrooge begrudgingly agrees, ordering him to come in earlier
the next day. 3. Scrooge sees Marley’s ghost who tells him that he must change his ways else he will walk the earth in
chains. 4. Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past who shows Scrooge his childhood hometown, his former
self at school, Li?le Fan, Fezziwig’s party and his ex fiancée, Belle. 5. Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present who shows Scrooge the Cratchit family at Christmas
and a range of Christmas scenes, from miners to sailors. 6. Scrooge is shown Fred’s party, where they make fun of him. He’s then shown two starved children,
Ignorance and Want. 7. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to come enters and shows Scrooge business men discussing the death of
someone, a dead body under a sheet and the Cratchit family who are mourning the death of Tiny Tim. 8. Scrooge is shown a grave stone with his name on. 9. Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning with excitement and happiness. He sends a turkey to the
Cratchits and a?ends Fred’s party. 10. Bob is late to work and is terrified he’ll lose his job. Scrooge pretends to be furious but raises his salary
instead. Scrooge con<nues to celebrate Christmas with all of his heart.
Starter – plot recap -‐ Answers
Recap: A Christmas Carol exam requirements.
Part A) • This extract response does not require context. • You will be asked to consider the presenta<on of a par<cular character or theme. • This assesses AO2: analysis of language, form and structure.
Part B) • The whole text ques<on for A Christmas Carol does not require context. • You will be asked to consider the presenta<on of a par<cular character or theme similar to that of your Part A quesCon. • This assesses AO1: interpretaCons, use of quotaCons and answering the quesCon.
Whole text quesGons – A Christmas Carol
When we studied A Christmas Carol at the start of the year, we focused on developing our extract responses. For today’s wri<ng task, you are going to produce a whole text response. You will have to demonstrate an understanding of the importance of family throughout the novella. When we move onto Animal Farm (Post-‐1914 Literature), you will have to produce a 40 mark whole text response.
Key theme -‐ family
TASK 1: Group the below characters into the correct families. Belle Martha Peter Fred
Belle’s fiancé Tiny Tim Bob Scrooge Mrs Cratchit Marley TASK 2: Draw a symbol that you think represents this family.
Key theme -‐ family
Group the below characters into the correct families. Belle Martha Peter Fred
Belle’s fiancé Tiny Tim Bob Scrooge Mrs Cratchit Fan Belle and her family The Cratchits Scrooge, Fred and Fan
Fred
• Fred visits Scrooge in his office to wish him a merry Christmas. • He holds a jolly family Christmas party where he refuses to be rude about Scrooge although he does laugh at his miserly ways. • He is kind to Bob, expressing his sorrow for the death of Tiny Tim (as portrayed by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come). • He welcomes Scrooge into the family Christmas without ques<on in Stave 5.
Fred is the anCthesis of Scrooge, demonstraCng how people should behave towards one another.
The relaGonship between Fred and Scrooge
Read pages 13 (‘A merry Christmas Uncle! God save you!’) to page 16 (‘for he returned them cordially’). As you are reading, consider how Scrooge treats his nephew. TASK: Find and annotate quota<ons that reveal anything about the rela<onship between the two. EXT: Consider how their rela<onship develops and changes as the novella progresses.
The Cratchit Family
• Dickens uses the plight and poverty of the Cratchit family to a?empt to shed light on the lives of the poor and highlight the true happiness that can be obtained through family. • The Cratchits, who hardly have enough money to feed, to shelter and the clothe their family, are at the mercy of Scrooge, who un<l his transforma<on remains emo<onally removed from the troubles of the less fortunate.
Read pages 56 (Then rose up Mrs Cratchit’) – 62 (‘God bless us everyone!’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.’)
Complete the following ques<ons using quota<ons from the text to support your ideas.
1. How does Dickens highlight the theme of poverty in the first paragraph of page 57? Find and closely analyse one quota<on. (The paragraph begins ‘Then rose up Mrs Cratchit’ and ends ‘let out and peeled’)
2. At the end of page 57, Dickens writes that Bob Cratchit came in with Tiny Tim ‘upon his shoulders’ and that Tiny Tim ‘bore a li?le crutch and had his limbs supported by an iron frame’. What percep<on does this give the readers of Tiny Tim?
3. How do the family respond to Mrs Cratchit’s Christmas pudding on page 62? What does this reveal about the family?
Now read pages 84-‐86 TASK: Copy the following diagram and consider the differences and similari<es between the presenta<on of the Cratchit family in Stave 3 and 4.
Stave 3 Stave 4
The Cratchit children are energe<c, ‘tearing in’ and ‘dancing about the table’.
The Cratchit children are subdued, described as being ‘as s<ll as statues’ in the corner.
Whole text quesGon.
Explain how the idea of family is portrayed in the novella. In your answer, you must consider: • who the families are • what life is like for these families and what impact they have in the novella.
Plan
You should spend 30 minutes wri<ng and should produce three paragraphs, all exploring the importance of family in the novella. 1. Fred and Scrooge 2. Li?le Fan and Scrooge (page 38)/ Belle and Scrooge/ Belle’s family
(pages 44-‐47) 3. Cratchit family
• You do not need to link to context. • You should include quotaCons from the text and explore their
importance in the novella. • Consider how the inclusion of each family/relaConship is
significant in shaping key events, character progression and reader response. Why does Dickens include this family?
Example paragraph.
In Stave Two of A Christmas Carol, Dickens cleverly u<lises Belle, Scrooge’s former fiancée, and her happy life without Scrooge to demonstrate the importance that family can have on a person’s life. Belle and Scrooge were once in the same circumstances, however Scrooge displaced his true love of Belle for a ‘golden idol’. This religious symbolism emphasises the extent to which Scrooge priori<sed money and material gain over love and family. Despite Scrooge’s protests, The Ghost of Christmas Past then shows Scrooge an idyllic scene of Belle and her new family in order to reveal to Scrooge what his greed has caused him to lose. Belle is presented to be a ‘comely matron’ who was not as wealthy as Scrooge, evidenced by her simply living in a room that was ‘not very large or handsome, but full of comfort’. Although Belle’s surroundings are not extravagant and lavish, she is surrounded by her own family and ‘laughed hear<ly’ in the midst of her playing children. Even Dickens, the omniscient narrator of the novella, interjects by sta<ng that he would have loved to be a part of the scene, which reinforces to the reader the true joy that Belle and her family experience when together. Through the comparison and contrast of Christmas days spent between Scrooge and Belle, Dickens develops both the ideas that family and love is truly the most important thing in the world and overrides Scrooge’s priori<es of wealth by far.
Plenary
Which family do you think had the biggest impact on Scrooge in the novella? TASK: Write a short paragraph to jus<fy your thoughts.