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Year  10  English  Literature  A  Christmas  Carol  Revision  

Tuesday  12th  January  2021    

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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.    

 

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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.  

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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

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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.  

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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.      

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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.  

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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  

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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.      

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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.      

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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.    

 

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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?    

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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.    

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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.    

 

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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?    

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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.      

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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.