1. We will end the period by visiting the library today.
7 DEC 2016
BELL ACTIVITY: Read the article about Charles Dickens and “A Christmas Carol”, on your desk.
We will end the period by visiting the library today.
Mrs. Baker is doing book talks.

2. Learning Target Understand why Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol”
and why he included “want” & “ignorance” as characters.
How Dickens used the power of words to change England’s (and America’s) attitude toward the poor
Understand how the Elements of Literature are similar to the Elements of Drama

3. Just a little background to help you understand the play better….
The play was written by Charles Dickens during the Industrial Revolution.

4. ELEMENTS OF DRAMA
Dickens was an advocate for the poor.

5. Setting Conflict Plot Theme Character
DRAMA IS A GENRE OF LITERATURE AND THEREFORE, INCLUDES THE 5 BASIC LITERARY ELEMENTS.
Setting Conflict
Plot Theme
Character

6. Setting is where and when the play takes place.
In a play, the setting is usually described in a note or stage directions at the opening of the play and each scene.

7. The series of events or action in a drama.
Plot
The series of events or action in a drama.
The plot in a novel, short story or play is defined the same and would be shown on a plot diagram with rising action, climax and resolution.

8. Conflict within the plot
There are five main types of conflict:
Character vs. self
Character vs. character
Character vs. society
Character vs. nature
Character vs. Fate

9. Theme
….the central idea about life or human behavior that the drama reveals.

10. CHARACTERS
CHARACTERS ARE THE INDIVIDUALS OR FORCES THAT ARE IN THE DRAMA.
They include MAJOR and MINOR Characters, as well as a PROTAGONIST & an ANTAGONIST.
Some characters will be ROUND & some FLAT, Some DYNAMIC & some STATIC.

11. 4 Additional Elements of Drama
Acts and Scenes
Intermission
Cast
Dialogue
Monologue
Stage Directions

12. Acts, Scenes & Intermission:
The Drama
Acts, Scenes & Intermission:
Act I
intermission
Act 2
ACTS: Most dramas have 1 to 3 Acts.
The playwrite breaks a drama into Acts
so there can be an “intermission”.
INTERMISSION: a break (usually near the middle of the play) between acts to allow the audience to stretch and take a break
Each Act is made up of SCENES. A scene in a play = of a chapter in a book.
Scenes 1 2 3 4 5

13. CAST The cast refers to the characters in a play.
At the beginning of most plays, the playwright gives a list of all the characters - this is called the CAST OF CHARACTERS.
The Cast of Characters will often list how the characters are related to one another.

14. Dialogue is the spoken conversation between characters in a play.

15. Monologue (Also known as Soliloquy)
A Monologue, or Soliloquy, is a type of dialogue. It is a speech by one character who is alone on the stage, speaking to himself or the audience. .

16. The most Famous soliloquy in Enlgish drama is in the play “Hamlet”, by Wm. Shakespeare.
“To Be Or Not To Be”: Spoken by Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1 To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

17. Stage Directions
Stage Directions describe details of the setting and sound effects as well as direct characters how to speak their lines,
move,
act
and
look.

18. For Example:
MISS MORAY: Now, we’ll just move directly into the specimen room. The working conditions will be ideal for you in here.
(HELEN looks ready to gag as she looks around the specimen room. The room is packed with specimen jars of all sizes. Various animals and parts of animals are visible in their formaldehyde baths.)
What the character does, feels, or how they look.
What the scene looks like

19. L = stage left D.C. = Down stage center U.R. = up stage right
U.C. = up stage center
U.R. = up stage right
U. L. = up stage left
R = stage right
L = stage left
center stage
D.R. = down stage right
DL = down
stage left
D.C. = Down stage center

20. USUALLY THE VOCABULARY ASPECT OF “A Christmas Carol” is homework
USUALLY THE VOCABULARY ASPECT OF “A Christmas Carol” is homework. However, since you already have homework (the RK Essay) there will not be any vocabulary test.
audible
benevolence
compulsion
destitute
dismal
fraught
implored
lamentation
malcontent
meager
11. toil
misanthrope
miser
morose
penance
remorse
resolute
scoundrels
slovenly
stagnate
Ebeneezer Scrooge