1. Date: 30th January 2019 Title: Scrooge’s character development
Lesson ready task: Skim back though Staves 1-3. Find two quotations which demonstrate Scrooge’s character development and analyse them.

2. Character log
One of Dickens’ structural devices is that as the novel progresses, more and more is learnt about Ebenezer Scrooge.
These include:
other characters’ observations
Scrooge’s actions
Scrooge’s own words.
Task: Create a character log which charts Scrooge’s character development
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3. Hist context
A Christmas Carol is set in London, sometime in the middle of the 19th century. (written in 1843)
What was happening in the world, politically, at that time?
What were the popular novels and songs of the day?
What new inventions were being introduced?
Research what was happening in the world in at this time, and complete the table using the link below

4. Text Analysis
Analyse the language techniques used in the following extracts
“Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half- thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.”
“In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke. In came all the young men and women employed in the business. In came the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker. In came the cook, with her brother’s particular friend, the milkman. In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master…”

5. EXT: Finish grouping quotations for Stave 4+5 T:\English\Mrs Bremner-Smith\Y10 Eng Lit ACC 2018-19

6. SMHW:
Read the descriptive of Gothic fiction given here:
Read the extract on the right.
Write a paragraph summarising how and why Dickens has made use of features of the Gothic genre in this extract of the novel