1 2 3 4 5 The Cratchit Family Stave Three 5-a-day Thursday 14th December 2017 C/L The Cratchit Family Stave Three 5-a-day 1 Fred says to Scrooge that Christmas is a “charitable time”. What is Dickens showing about some of the rich? 2 Why does Dickens have Fezziwig as a character in the novella? (Think about his message to Victorian readers) 3 Why does Belle call off her engagement to Scrooge? 4 Finish this quotation: “Come in and know me __________ ___________!” 5 Finish this quotation that Belle’s husband says about Scrooge: “quite ________ in the world, I do believe”

How the Cratchits represent the Victorian Poor Thursday 14th December 2017 C/L How the Cratchits represent the Victorian Poor LESSON OBJECTIVE: To understand who the Cratchit Family represent. LESSON OUTCOME: To analyse how the Dickens presents the struggles of the poor through the Cratchit family.

Home Learning Complete the Stave Two Revision Question Sheet. GDA Due: Monday 18th December

Give yourself 10 minutes to plan your answer first!

Critical means you have opinionated ideas and perceptive ideas Critical means you have opinionated ideas and perceptive ideas. You only get this from knowing the novella really well! So read it again.

Who is in the family? SIX CHILDREN AO3 Charles Dickens was from a big family like the Cratchits. He was poor and maybe this family echoes his own childhood struggles in poverty. Who is in the family? SIX CHILDREN 1. Martha 2. Belinda 3. Peter 4 + 5. two smaller Cratchits 6. Tiny Tim Bob Cratchit and his wife Mrs Cratchit Weird she doesn’t have a first name?

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MARTHA AND PETER CRATCHIT – TWO OLDER CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY Poor children had to work to support families. Most families had 10 children. Many died and ALL poor children worked if they weren’t lucky to go to school.

The children and their jobs. Why is this SO important? Martha Cratchit She works at a milliner’s (someone who makes hats) “poor apprentice at a milliner’s” She works long hours and says she cannot wait for Christmas Day as it is her ONLY holiday. She works late on Christmas Eve right through into the morning “We’d a deal of work to finish up last night” Peter Cratchit He doesn’t work but on Christmas Day the family talk about him getting a job with Scrooge. He wants to earn and work hard like his dad. He wears his dad’s huge shirt with stiff collars on Christmas Day

AO1 How detailed, perceptive and thoughtful your ideas are when you use quotations and analyse them. AO2 How you spot that Dickens uses certain words, methods, punctuation and sentences for an effect. AO3 How well you can link the themes and characters to what Dickens’ message was to his Victorian readers. How does Dickens use the Cratchits to represent the struggles of the poor?

Read this extract from when they have Christmas Dinner in Stave Three Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds, a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course- and, in truth, it was something very like it in that house. Mrs Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple sauce; Martha dusted the hot plats; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set the chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting their guard upon their posts, crammed their spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was said. It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving knife- prepared to plunge it into the breast; when she did; and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife and feebly cried Hurrah!

The Question: How does Dickens use the Cratchits to show the struggle of the poor? Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds, a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course- and, in truth, it was something very like it in that house. Mrs Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple sauce; Martha dusted the hot plats; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set the chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting their guard upon their posts, crammed their spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was said. It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving knife- prepared to plunge it into the breast; when she did; and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife and feebly cried Hurrah!

AO1 How detailed, perceptive and thoughtful your ideas are when you use quotations and analyse them. AO2 How you spot that Dickens uses certain words, methods, punctuation and sentences for an effect. AO3 How well you can link the themes and characters to what Dickens’ message was to his Victorian readers. How does Dickens use the Cratchits to represent the struggles of the poor?

Now: Answer the question using as many quotations as possible in SEA paragraphs! Dickens deliberately uses the Cratchit family to represent how the poor struggled to survive and afford food because when they are ready to eat Christmas Dinner the goose is described as the “rarest of all birds”. This hyperbolic language stresses how much the family glorify the goose when in fact it is a cheap version of Turkey and it highlights how they cannot afford the normal meat at Christmas dinner. Furthermore the superlative adjective “rarest” is used by Dickens to show how the family still think that they have managed to get an amazing meal despite being able to only afford goose which would be deemed as cheap for the rich Victorian reader. Dickens is perhaps using this language here to stress how the family are also grateful for what they have despite how much they struggle financially. Therefore Dickens could be attempting to use the Cratchits to make a rich Victorian reader realise how lucky they are and also to change the stereotype that Victorian people had of the poor: that they were ungrateful for the support they were given such as the Poor Law.

AO1 How detailed, perceptive and thoughtful your ideas are when you use quotations and analyse them. AO2 How you spot that Dickens uses certain words, methods, punctuation and sentences for an effect. AO3 How well you can link the themes and characters to what Dickens’ message was to his Victorian readers. How does Dickens use the Cratchits to represent the struggles of the poor? Key Words struggle survive deprived, starved, disadvantaged, underprivileged appreciative/thankful/grateful Dickens deliberately uses the Cratchits to show how they cannot afford food when it says “_______________________”