1. Revision for A Christmas Carol Paper One
Monday 20th November 2017
C/L
Revision for A Christmas Carol Paper One 1
What would you say are the 3 key things Dickens wanted to teach his readers? 2
Can you finish this Fan quotation?
“I’ve come to take you ________,_________,________ dear brother” 3
Martha plays a trick on her dad that she hasn’t come for Christmas dinner. Dickens writes that there was a “sudden declension in his high spirits” what does that show about this family? 4
At Fred’s party, Topper says that a bachelor is a “wretched outcast”. What does this mean? 5
What does this quotation show about Scrooge in Stave One?
“the fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago”

2. Next week’s Monday mock
English Literature Paper One.
Romeo and Juliet essay +
A Christmas Carol essay

3. The plan for this week Today How to approach A Christmas Carol essay.
Lesson
Revision
Today
How to approach A Christmas Carol essay.
Miss Atha- important for AO4/essay writing.
Tomorrow
Revising An Inspector Calls for Paper Two Friday
Breakfast: Revision: Charge of the Light Brigade Paper 2
After School:
Romeo and Juliet revision.
Wednesday
Practice R+J essay for Paper One
Lunch duty and English meeting- not available at lunch.
Thursday
Unseen Poetry Revision Paper Two
Available in L6
Friday
Comparing poems
The plan for this week

4. timings 1 hour 45 = 105 minutes 50 minutes each essay
5 minutes to spare
timings
Your exam is at 1:50pm YOU have to figure out the time to stop writing Romeo and Juliet and start Christmas Carol. You are supposed to start at 1:50 So…
Finish Romeo and Juliet essay at 2:40pm
Your exam will be done by 3:35pm

5. Romeo and Juliet = 34 marks For Romeo and Juliet 4 marks are awarded for: -ambitious words. -spelling -accurate punctuation -using well crafted sentences Christmas Carol = 30 marks
marks
AO1
Maintain a critical style, show a personal response, use textual references including quotations to support ideas
AO2
Analyse the language and structure used by a writer to create effects. Use subject terminology where appropriate.
AO3
Show understanding of the relationship between the text and the context it was written in.
AO4
Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures with accurate spelling and punctuation.

6. A CHRISTMAS CAROL Use the extract as a springboard
1. Spend minutes using the extract to write SEA paragraphs using quotations from it. THE BULK OF YOUR TIME
2. Then spend around 20 minutes writing about the rest of the novella because you NEED to show an understanding of the whole book to pass.

7. A CHRISTMAS CAROL Ok so how would I approach this question?
I’d make sure I understood what an outsider meant.
I’d find my quotations I want to use from the extract.
I’d brainstorm quickly where Scrooge is an outsider in the rest of the novella.

8. I can’t remember when things happen to be accurate when I refer to the “novel as a whole”
Stave One- Marley death, Bob Cratchit, Charity Workers, Miser, Marley’s ghost visits. Stave Two – PAST CHRISTMASES Stave Three – PRESENT CHRISTMAS Stave Four – FUTURE Stave Five – The end.

9. Scrooge as an outsider to society.
Where is scrooge an outsider TO SOCIETY in the rest of the novella? Brainstorm three ideas then I’ll share
His lack of social responsibility for the Cratchit family makes him an outsider and disliked when Mrs Cratchit says “I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon”
His drive for money makes him develop into an outsider that Belle cannot marry in Stave Two. She says “you fear the world too much”
He pushes Fred away in Stave One when he says “good afternoon” and disagrees with Fred about Christmas being a time for charity.
Scrooge as an outsider to society.
In Stave Three the sisters and Fred’s wife see him as an outsider when they laugh at him and Fred’s wife says “I have no patience with him”
He has no friends and companions other than Marley “sole friend” “sole mourner”

10. CAN YOU HAVE A GO TODAY? YOU WILL GET FEEDBACK TOMORROW
Phrases the examiner loves
Perhaps this could also reveal…
Alternatively this also shows…
Dickens deliberately…
This links to later on in the novella when…
Write about the extract in detail picking out key quotations and analysing each one in individual paragraphs for the bulk of your time.
Then LINK IT TO about 2-3 other quotations elsewhere in the novella.