1. Scrooge enters the poor streets of the city
C/L
Wednesday 17th January 2018
Scrooge enters the poor streets of the city

2. Starter task: no help, no questions
Read a paragraph taken from a newspaper article that Dickens wrote.
He wrote this after visiting a Ragged School (a school for the poor)
Read it twice to understand it.
Then work in pairs/threes to highlight parts of the article that make you think of Ignorance and Want.

3. Scrooge enters the deepest, darkest part of his city: where the poor live.
Stop, I like many of the rich do not want to see this.
Let me IGNORE the poor in my city!
Key Words
Obscure = strange/new/unusual
Penetrated = enter
Bad repute = bad reputation
Slipshod = sloppy
Cesspool = a smelly open drain
Disgorged = to expel/spit/eject

4. Task 1:
Colour code your key and then shade in the techniques that you can spot.
You are hitting AO2- Identify and analyse the writer’s use of language and the effect they have on the reader.

5. Pick three things and analyse them.
These adjectives make the streets seem disgusting and also make it appear as if you can’t escape the smell and the poverty because of how narrowly packed the streets are.
Task 2:
Pick three things and analyse them.
What does it show about the poor?

6. How does dickens describe the poverty in stave four?
Start with your statement and slide in your quotation into the sentence.
Then get analysing:
Why has Dickens used a certain word?
What does the overall quotation show about poverty?
How does Scrooge react?
How is Scrooge an archetype of the Victorian rich?
What is Dicken’s message? What did he want his readers to learn and why?

7. How does dickens describe the poverty in stave four?
Dickens shows how the poor were often ignored by the rich in the Victorian Times because in Stave Four of the novella, Scrooge is taken deep into the poor part of the city which he calls an “obscure part of town.” Dickens deliberately uses the adjective “obscure” here to show an archetype of the rich because Scrooge clearly has never visited this part of the town and he finds it unusual. The fact that Scrooge finds it “obscure” shows how he, like many of the rich, has ignored the poor in his own city because it is an easier option that looking around and trying to help the poverty crisis that existed at that time. This quotation also carries a surprising and frightened tone to reflect how Scrooge is nervous to enter this part of the city as he doesn’t want to see the reality of poverty because it means he will have to reflect on how he has distanced himself from it. Dickens uses Scrooge’s visit to the streets as a message to his Victorian readers that we often ignore and separate ourselves from the issue of poverty when his readers should have tried to help the poor. It reflects how the rich encouraged the change in the Poor Law that left the poor in a worse and desperate situation seeking help through the workhouses purely because the rich felt the poor didn’t deserve help.