2. L10: What is Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and how does this compare with Fred’s attitude towards Christmas?

3. L10: What is Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and how does this compare with Fred’s attitude towards Christmas?
In today’s lesson we are going to explore Scrooge’s feelings about Christmas. Before we do this, in groups discuss your response to the following questions: what are your own experiences of Christmas? What does Christmas mean to you? Can you remember a particularly special Christmas and explain what made it special to you?
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4. L10: What is Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and how does this compare with Fred’s attitude towards Christmas?
The following quotations are taken from Stave One. How far do they reflect your own experiences of Christmas?
Greetings: ‘A Merry Chrismas, uncle! God save you!’
Cost: ‘What’s Christmastime to you but a time for paying bills without money?”
Charity: ‘I have always thought of Christmastime (…) as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.’
Food: ‘Come! Dine with us tomorrow.’
Shopping: The brightness of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows…
Carols: ‘God bless you, merry gentleman, / May nothing you dismay!’
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5. Let’s read the next part of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
L10: What is Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and how does this compare with Fred’s attitude towards Christmas?
Let’s read the next part of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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6. L10: What is Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and how does this compare with Fred’s attitude towards Christmas?
Look at the quotations– some of which are taken from this extract and some from the next moment in stave one.
What can we infer about the characters’ attitudes towards Christmas from each quotation?
Are the quotations showing characters who are in favour of Christmas or against Christmas?
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7. Whose viewpoint do you agree with the most?
L10: What is Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and how does this compare with Fred’s attitude towards Christmas?
Look at the two quotations below: one spoken by Fred and one spoken by Scrooge. These characters have diametrically opposed views on Christmas. Summarise their viewpoints and explain why you think they think the way they do.
Reflection
‘What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer?’
‘I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.’
Whose viewpoint do you agree with the most?