The Christmas Carol

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The Christmas Carol

• 7th grade Literature Unit
• Created by Mary Moore
• and Leslie Lause

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Unit Objectives

• CA 7-6 Students will develop and apply reading
  comprehension skills.

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A Note from the Author I have endeavoured in
this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of
an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of
humour with themselves, with each other, with the
season, or with me. May it haunt their houses
pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their
faithful Friend and Servant,C. D.December,
1843.www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/c
hristmas-carol/
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Who was Charles Dickens?

• Charles Dickens scavenger hunt

Video
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Explore Victorian England

Be sure to check out the life
expectancy. Then check out your life expectancy.
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Cross Curricular Link Science

• Gas/Electric Lighting In 1843, when A Christmas
  Carol was published, not all streets were lit by
  lamps. Gas lamps had been place on some streets
  as early as 1807, but in other areas pedestrians
  needed to carry their own lanterns to light their
  way.

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• Early lamps in homes used fuels such as vegetable
  oil or fish or whale oils. Kerosene became more
  popular after 1859. Coal gas, however, was the
  source of most street lighting, even though it
  was considered to be as safe as other
• fuel sources.

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• The first incandescent light was patented in
  1841, but electric lights were not commercially
  successful until 1879, when Edison produced a
  carbon-filament lamp. Electric street lighting
  was soon afterward introduced in large cities in
  Europe and America.
• Slides 3-5 are taken from 2002 Teachers edition
  Pg. 258 McDougal Littell The Language of
  Literature

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VisualizingAs you read
Chart
When you read, use the stage directions to
visualize the characters, the setting and the
action. In other words, picture it as if you
were sitting in the audience. As you read,
picture where the scene takes place. Imagine the
characters and what they do. Use the chart to
note important details in each scene of A
Christmas Carol. Doing so will help you
visualize the scenes. Unit Two Resource Book
McDougal Littell The Language of Literature
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Christmas Carol Vocabulary

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A Dickens of a PartyA WebQuest Activity
http//www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson
238/dickens_WebQuest.htmlintroduction
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Christmas Carol Quiz

Click

http//www.perryweb.com/Dickens/puzzle_carol.shtml
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Text vs. Production vs. Movie

Compare and Contrast
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Scroogify a Christmas song

• Students are to take a melody, of a carol that
  they are familiar with, and re-write the lyrics
  as if Scrooge would have done so. Here is my
  example set to the tune of "Jingle Bells."

• Here is my example set to the tune of "Jingle
  Bells." "Bah Humbug!" Walking to my
  counting-house The streets are filled with bums
  O?er them I go, feeling like a louse. Bells in
  the church tower ring Making my spirit low What
  melancholy sting Off with three spirits I go
  Chorus Bah Humbug, bah humbug, Christmas is
  for fools. The season isn?t for spending money
  and breaking all the rules. Bah Humbug, bah
  humbug, Christmas is for fools. I wish they
  would be meloncholy And then I would be jolly

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