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A Christmas Carol

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 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm - A Christmas Carol - Online Book

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_kjc71r7c0 - Christmas Carol - Audio Book

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/30/nyregion/dickens-christmas-carol-pages.html - Original Transcript of Dickens Christmas Carol

 

http://www.michellehenry.fr/dickens.htm - Christmas Carol/Dickens Activities

 

 

 

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/reading/dickens-christmascarol.html Christmas Carol Games

 

http://www.achristmascarol.ca/game/302-ebenezer-scrooge-in-spirits-of-christmas - Spirit of Christmas - Christmas Carol Game

 

 

 

http://www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/learn/curriculum/language/dickens/writing.htm - Christmas Carol Activities

 

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens-

 

 

http://authors.simonandschuster.net/tagged_assets/cg05_860_3906.pdf - Curriculum Guide

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/christmascarol/summary.html - Christmas Carol Summary - Spark Notes

 

 

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson238/role_cards.html - Investigative Role Cards - History Expert, Fashion Expert, Etiquette Expert, Entertainment Expert -  Dickens Era

 

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson238/character_sketch.html - Character Sketch

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.ungerware.net/ccpixk1.htm - Christmas Carol Play Photos

 

http://www.eclassroom.110mb.com/Dickens/studentwork.html - Christmas Carol Projects

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/ - Dickens' Victorian London Game

 

http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Games/CMTVMore/AChristmasCarol2/AChristmasCarol2.htm - Christmas Carol Online Board Game

 

http://www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/learn/curriculum/language/dickens/writing.htm - Christmas Carol Activities

http://www.world-english.org/christmas_carol.htm - Christmas Carol - Audio

http://literature.pppst.com/DEF/charles-dickens.html - Charles Dickens PPT

http://www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/christmas-carol/index.html - Christmas Carol online

http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/index.htm - A Christmas Carol

http://www.leasttern.com/ChristmasCarol/CCarol.html - Dickens Christmas Carol

http://charlesdickenspage.com/christmas.html - Dickens Christmas Page

http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/work_carol.shtml - Dickens Christmas Carol Background

http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/puzzle_carol.shtml - Dickens Christmas Carol Quiz

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChri.html - Dickens Christmas Carol - UVA

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/ - Dickens Interactive  Multimedia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/ - Surviving Dickens London Game

http://www.eclassroom.110mb.com/Dickens/index.html - Dickens Christmas Carol - Research VIctorian England

http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/dickens.htm - Charles Dickens

http://www.unl.edu/sbehrend/html/sbsite/StudyQuestions/Dickens%20Xmas%20Carol.htm - Christmas Carol Study Question

http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1898.html - Christmas Carol Comprehension Questions

http://literature.pppst.com/DEF/dickens-christmascarol.html- Christmas Carol PPT 

http://worldhistory.pppst.com/victorian.html - Victorian Era - PPT

http://worldhistory.pppst.com/18th-19thcenturies.html - 18th & 19th Century PPT

http://storynory.com/2005/12/02/a-christmas-carol-part-one/- Christmas Carol Story 

http://ghills.metamora.k12.il.us/webquest/xmas/truth.htm - Christmas Carol Webquest

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson238/role_cards.html- Investigative Cards - Dickens Era 

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson238/role_cards.html- Dickens of a Party

http://worldhistory.pppst.com/victorian.html  - The Victorian Era

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/ - Children in Victorian England

 

http://storynory.com/2005/12/02/a-christmas-carol-part-one/ - Dickens Christmas Carol - Audio/Frog

 

http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/christmas.html - Christmas Stories

 

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson238/role_cards.html- Dickens Party Planner

http://www.storybookonline.net/article.aspx?Article=visit_from_st_nicholas - Visit From St. Nicholas 

 

 

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/ - Victorian England Game

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Christmas Carol Extra Activities 

1.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/

2.  video about Charles Dickens  http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/animation.shtml

3.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4399744.stm

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A Christmas Carol

 

by Charles Dickens

 

Everyone knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Christmas Carol.  It is one of those stories that we hear, read, or see every holiday season.  We are going to be reading an abridged junior edition of the classic Dicken's story.  Parts of the story we will read together, some we will read in small groups, and some of the story we read by ourselves.

 

Lesson#1

1.  Let's make a list of everything we know about Charles Dickens and the story.  Each group will have a sheet of chart paper and markers.  As a group create a K-W-L chart to share with the rest of the class.

 

2.  Before we can truly understand the story we need to have some background information.  We need to know a little bit about the author Charles Dickens himself.  It would also be helpful to know a bit about what is going to happen in story.  This will prepare us for our reading.

  

CLICK here to learn all about Charles Dickens  http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=7023&view=sml_sptlght

 

 

 

4.  Take a few minutes to look through the reading packets in your folders.  Look over the prologue and Chapter One.  On a post-it note write down all of the words you do not recognize or know the meaning of.

 

5.  We are going to read and discuss the prologue together.

 

6.  As part of our Christmas Carol project, we are going to make our own folder to keep all of our work organized that we will accumulate from A Christmas Carol.  Open a new Word Document and design a cover for your folder.

 

Lesson #2

 

1.  Share our Scrooge Christmas Cards.

2.  Review what we read in the prologue.  What did we learn about the kind of person Scrooge was? 

3.  Read Chapter 1 in small groups.  Together work on a few "I Wonder" questions about the chapter.  Be ready to share them with the class.

 

4.  Click here to answer a few questions about Chapter One.  You will need your reading packets close by to go back to prove some of your answers.  When you complete this page, you will save it to your H:drive.  We are going to be adding these questions to your Wiki as the story goes on.  

 

CC Part One Questions.doc

 

5.  In 1843, John Calcott Horsley created the first Christimas cards.  You will design a Christmas card that you believe Scrooge would send to well-wishers.  You will need construction paper, markers, colored pencils, crayons, scissors, and anything else you would like to use to decorate your Christmas card.

 

6.  An Unexpected Visitor--Imagine you are Ebenezer Scrooge.  Late one evening you are surprised by an unexpected visitor, but you have one advantage Ebenezer did not have--YOUR VISITOR CAN BE ANYONE YOU CHOOSE!!!  Select anyone you would like in the world, from any field--music, arts, sports, family members, historic persons, politics, etc.

     Answer these questions:

     1.  Who would your visitor be?  Why?

     2.  What questions would you ask?

     3.  List the refreshments you would serve.

     4.  What activities would you plan?

     5.  How would you prove to others that this person had really visited you?

 

Lesson #3

 

1.  Marley is finally going to visit Ebenezer.  Follow along as we read Chapter 2 together.

 

2.  Click here to answer questions about Chapter 2

 

3.  In your small groups, complete the study group questions.  Make sure you are ready to share them with the class.

          Study Group Questions Ch 2 CC.doc

     

 

4.  Review and discuss the questions on the reading response journal page.  Click here to get it.

 

     CC Reading Respons Chapter 2.doc

 

5.  Think of a good deed that you have done this week.  Write the deed on a chain link with your name.  Add it to the class chain.  Try to to add at least one good deed each week.

 

Lesson #4

 

1.  Read and discuss Chapter 3.

 

2.  In order to better understand what you have read, it is important to visualize the story in your head.  We are going to complete a "Journey Circle" to depict what we read in chapter three.  You will be drawing your "Journey Circle" on white construction paper.  Include the following locations:

     a.  boarding school

     b.  the apprentice shop

     c.  the meeting with his girlfriend

     d.  Scrooge's former girlfriend's house

     e.  return to the present time

**your Journey Circle MUST be colored.

**write a caption explaining each location

**write the effect the location had on Scrooge

 

3.  HW:  Choose only one of the following questions to answer for homework.  Save it and link it to your Christmas Carol wiki page.

 

     A Christmas Carol Chapter 3 questions.doc

 

4.  Study Group Questions:  With your group discuss the following.

     a.  Explain what the spirit's light represents.

     b.  What would cause the spirit to hide its light under its cap?

     c.  Why did the spirit visit Scrooge?  What was Scrooge's initial reaction?

     d.  How did Scrooge change througout his life?

     e.  What may have caused Scrooge to turn his attitude toward gold and away from people?

     f.  List the things in Scrooge's past that cause Scrooge's present attitude about

Christmas.

 

5.  Reading Response Questions  Reading Response Chapter 3 CC.doc

 

Lesson #5

 

1.  Read Chapter 4 independently.  Use post-it notes to ask questions while reading

 

2.  Answer Chapter 4 questions. CC chapter 4 questions.doc

 

3.  During the time of Charles Dickens came the invention of Morse Code.  In this activity we will read and write messages using morse code. 

 

Lesson #6

 

1.  read and discuss Chapter 5

 

2.  review Chapter 5 by doing reading discussion questions.

 

3.  Scrooge has the opportunity to see into his future with the visit of the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come.  We are going to make a flip book of your future.  Pretend you can see into a Crystal Ball.  What do you think you will see?  Click here to find a copy of the requirements for the "Crystal Ball" project. 

     

     Crystal Ball project.doc

 

     Crystal Ball project rubric.doc

 

4. Click here to complete "Quiz Time"  Use your story to answer the these questions.  Each question should be answered in paragraph form.  This will be used as a test grade.  Proofread your answers for capital letters, punctuation, and spelling.  Check for run-on sentences and fragments.  Your answers MUST provide proof from the story.

 

     A Christmas Carol Quiz Time 1-5.doc

     

 

Lesson #7

 

1.  read and discuss Chapter 6 and Epilogue

 

2.  reading response journal for Chapters 5 and 6

 

3.  Chapter 6 Questions   A Christmas Carol Chapter 6 questions.doc

 

Lesson #8  Culminating Activities

 

1.  End of the book test--You will have two options to choose from to assess what you have learned from the story.  Option 1 is a Cause and Effect activity.  Option 2 is interpreting quotations from the story.

 

 

2.  Make a Christmas card from Scrooge's new viewpoint of Christmas.

 

3.  Illustrate the change in Scrooge's emotions from the beginning of the story to the end of the story.

 

 

4.  In groups of three, write a short script depicting a scene from the story.  Be prepare to present it to the class.  

 

 

 

 

A Christmas Carol | Themes

Guilt and Innocence
Often in ghost stories, the ghostly apparitions function to remind the main character of something evil he or she has done in the past. In other words, ghosts act as the character's conscience. Scrooge certainly has enough to feel guilty about: he is mean and tight-fisted with his assistant, Bob Cratchit; dismissive of his nephew, Fred; miserly and cold with the men from the local charity association; and nasty to the little caroler that he chases away from his keyhole with a ruler. Each of these people are associated with some form of...

 

 

 

A Christmas Carol | Style

Point of View
Mainly, this novel is narrated in the third person; that is, the story is usually told as "he said" or "she said" or "Scrooge watched them," etc. In the beginning, though, there is a little touch of a first-person narrator, as someone talking directly to the reader, referring to himself as "I." This narrator is the type of personality who will use a phrase and then mull over its appropriateness ("I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail the deadest piece of ironmongery … ") and to make humorous satirical remarks.

 

 

A Christmas Carol | Compare and Contrast

  • 1843: The world's first Christmas cards are sent out by Henry Cole, a director of a London museum.

    Today: Millions of Christmas cards are sent out each year by families and business, but many people are replacing paper cards with animated Internet cards.

  • 1843: The squalid courts and cheap food shops of a London area dubbed "Porridge Island" are cleared away for a development area called Trafalgar Square, in honor of Lord Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.

    Today: Trafalgar Square...

 

Christmas Carol Projects 

 

http://www.eclassroom.110mb.com/Dickens/studentwork.html

Christmas Carol Projects 

 

 

Public Awareness Campaign - Workhouse Poster

Public Awareness Campaign - "Da Workhouse" rap

Timeline Project

Victorian Village

The Three Spirits

Venn Diagram #1

Venn Diagram #2

The Three Spirits of Christmas - illustration

Jacob Marley - written work

Jacob Marley - illustration (goes with written work above)

Christmas Past

Christmas Present

Christmas Yet to Come

 

Da Christmas Carol - part 1

Da Christmas Carol - part 2

Da Christmas Carol - part 3

Da Christmas Carol - part 4

 

Another Christmas Carol Rap

 

 

A Christmas Carol Video Summary

 

 

A Letter from Ebenezer Scrooge

 

It is customary to write thank you letters when people do things that are thoughtful or helpful, or to show appreciation for special gifts.

 

Imagine that you are Ebenezer Scrooge. The Christmas ghosts did something important by visiting you to help you learn from your past mistakes and become a better person. Choose the two ghosts you think made the biggest difference and helped you change the most.  Then write those two ghosts a thank you letter, using specific details from their visits to explain the importance of what they showed and told you.

 

 

1.  What is Scrooge’s initial view on what is important in life?

2.  What do Marley’s chains symbolize?

3.  What does Ghost 1 show Scrooge?

4.  What is similar about what Ghosts 2 and 3 show Scrooge? How does what they show affect him?

5.  How did Charles Dickens’s writing about the poor and vulnerable members of society help them?

6.  What is the climax of the play? How do you know?

7.  What is the mood of the play? Does it stay the same throughout the play?

8.  Name some major themes in the Christmas Carol.

 

 

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