1. A Christmas Carol 5-a-day
You must write in full sentences so that you can look back on this for revision
e.g. Scrooge says …
e.g. Dickens is suggesting 1
What does Scrooge say the charity workers? Better if you can give a quotation from memory. 2
Can you finish this quotation?
“he ____________ his way along the crowded paths” 3
At Marley’s funeral, Scrooge is his “sole mourner” and “sole friend”. What does Dickens suggest here about the rich? 4
What did Dickens campaign for? 5
What does Bob Cratchit have to warm himself with in work?

2. A Christmas Carol 5-a-day1
“I can’t afford to make idle people merry” “It’s not my business” “Are there no prisons?” 2
Can you finish this quotation?
“he edged his way along the crowded paths” 3
Dickens is suggesting that the rich are lonely and that money won’t give you companionship. 4
Dickens campaigned for a reduced divide between the rich and the poor and for the poor to be educated more so that they wouldn’t lead to a life of crime. 5
Bob Cratchit has to warm himself on a candle.

3. Home Learning
Revise your Week 4 Spellings for A Spelling Test on Thursday.
Complete the Stave One Question Sheet.
Due: Thursday 23rd November

4. Scrooge’s miserly ways
C/L
Tuesday 21st November 2017
Scrooge’s miserly ways
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
To understand how Scrooge is a miser.
A miser is a person who spends as little money as possible and hoards it
LESSON OUTCOME:
To identify and explain ways that Scrooge is a miser.

5. Rumour has it…
Ebenezer Scrooge has been rumoured to be based on a real person called John Elwes.
Elwes was a politician and had a very good education in boarding school.
When his father died he inherited £8million.
When his uncle died he inherited a further £18million.
Elwes copied his uncle's miserly ways. He went to bed when darkness fell so as to save on candles. He began wearing only ragged clothes. He ate a moorhen that a rat pulled from a river. He died from hypothermia in his house.

7. How do we know Scrooge that is a miser from this extract?
A miser is a person who spends as little money as possible and hoards it
A small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready and the little saucepan of gruel upon the hob. Nobody under the bed; nobody under the closet; nobody in his dressing-gown which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall. Old fire guard, old shoes, washing-stand on three legs and a poker. It was a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night. He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel. The fireplace was an old one, but by some Dutch merchant a long time ago.

8. How do we know Scrooge that is a miser from this extract?
What adjective is repeated often to show that Scrooge refuses to spend his money?
How do we know Scrooge that is a miser from this extract?
A miser is a person who spends as little money as possible and hoards it
A small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready and the little saucepan of gruel upon the hob. Nobody under the bed; nobody under the closet; nobody in his dressing-gown which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall. Old fire guard, old shoes, washing-stand on three legs and a poker. It was a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night. He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel. The fireplace was an old one, but by some Dutch merchant a long time ago.

9. Where does Dickens show us that Scrooge is a miser?
Around your image of Scrooge eating alone at home on Christmas Eve, write down up to 6 key quotations that show that he is a miser!
Challenge: For some of the quotations can you label interesting language features?
adjective
“little saucepan of gruel”

10. How does Dickens show that Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser?
You have 30 minutes to write about your extract.
Use as many quotations as possible in the time limit.
Success Criteria:
Embed your quotations.
Explain in DETAIL what it reveals about Scrooge and his greed/addiction to money.
Zoom in on key language features and explain their effect.
MAKE SURE YOU MENTION WHAT DICKENS IS TEACHING US!

11. Dickens highlights how Scrooge relies on keeping his money and not spending when in Stave One Scrooge is alone on Christmas Eve and refuses to put coal on the fire, so instead he is “obliged to sit close” to the fire to be able to stay warm. This illustrates how Scrooge would rather be cold and even push himself to illness than put more coal on the fire to warm himself up. Furthermore it suggests that Scrooge is too addicted to his money and views it as something that is more precious than his own health or even companionship. A modern day reader would find it strange that such a rich man is not willing to have a large fire but it is clear that he doesn’t care about staying warm. The verb “obliged” stresses that he is extremely cold and his miserly ways is forcing him to have to sit overly close to the fire. Additionally Dickens is using irony here to reveal that the rich were often very backward thinking in the Victorian times and viewed their money too highly.

12. On your coin summarise what Dickens is teaching his readers about the value of money
Dickens is using Scrooge’s miserly ways to teach his Victorian and modern day readers that….