1. L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?

2. Recap questions: What is a preface?
L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Recap questions:
What is a preface?
Why does Dickens include a preface to ‘A Christmas Carol’?
How does Dickens attempt to hook the reader into ‘A Christmas Carol’ straight away?
How does Dickens navigate between a serious tone and a more light-hearted tone?
What can we infer about Scrooge as a result of his behavior when Marley dies?
Explain the significance of the allusion to Hamlet.
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3. L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Look at the list of words below. All of these words have been used to describe Scrooge at the start of ‘A Christmas Carol.’
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Decide whether this character is a likeable character or not and find evidence in the language to support your claim.
Using only the words above, create three sentences of your own to describe this character.

4. L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Let’s continue our reading of Stave 1. In this extract we are going to learn more about the character of Scrooge.
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5. Pen to paper Were our predictions correct?
L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Were our predictions correct?
Create a thought bubble with the title ‘Scrooge’ in the middle.
Identify a minimum of five adjectives you would use to describe Scrooge based upon this description with supporting evidence.
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Scrooge

6. L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
The words a writer uses or the way they structure their writing really helps us, as readers, to form impressions. Below are a number of linguistic and structural techniques. Can you match the technique to its definition?
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7. L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Look at the following sentences below that are used to describe Scrooge. Can you identify the technique used in bold?
A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!
Nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue.
But what did Scrooge care!
No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge.
Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?”
…as solitary as an oyster
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8. Recap questions: What is a noun? What is a verb? What is an adjective?
L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Recap questions:
What is a noun?
What is a verb?
What is an adjective?
What is a comparative adjective?
What is an adverb?
What is a simile?
What is an imperative sentence?
What is an interrogative sentence?
What is a declarative sentence?
What is an exclamatory sentence?
What is direct speech?
What is repetition?
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9. L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Being analytical:
In order to be analytical, we need to do a number of things when looking at key quotations from a text:
We need to break the quotation down and focus in on key words using subject terminology.
We need to explain what those key words mean.
We then need to make inferences about what the writer might be suggesting through the choice of words.
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10. Pen to paper Key task: You are going to be given a snowflake.
L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Key task:
You are going to be given a snowflake.
Choose a key quotation and write this in the centre.
Identify the key words in this quotation. What do they mean?
What techniques have been used?
What can we infer about the character or situation as a result?
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11. Quotation analysis Pen to paper
L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Quotation analysis
A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!
…secret, and self-contained…
The cold within him froze but his old features…
Nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue
…and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
…as solitary as an oyster
A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.
He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.
No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.
No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?”
No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of scrooge.
…as sharp and hard as flint
Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts…
But what did Scrooge care!
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12. L6+L7: How does Dickens use language and structure to present Scrooge at the start of the novella?
Quotation analysis
A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!
…secret, and self-contained…
The cold within him froze but his old features…
Nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue
…and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
…as solitary as an oyster
A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.
He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.
No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.
No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?”
No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of scrooge.
…as sharp and hard as flint
Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts…
But what did Scrooge care!
Share your quotation analysis with the people on your table. Focus in on key words, terminology and inferences when feeding back.
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