1. Open-Ended Responses

2. 1. Background Information 2. Restate the Question 3. Answer the Question 4. Support your answer with evidence from the story 5. Connect your evidence and your answer 6. Make a larger connection to the world/life

3. Open-Ended Question What do the children Ignorance and Want symbolize? Connect your response to the events of the story.

4. 1. Background Information Include the title and author. What does the reader need to know about the story? Charles Dickens’ story A Christmas Carol…. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________

5. 2. Restate the Question In your own words, restate the question. In Stave 3 of the story, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the children of Ignorance and Want. The children Ignorance and Want represent…

6. 3. Answer the Question The children Ignorance and Want represent… _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________

7. 4. Support your answer with evidence from the story Text evidence- quotes Charles Dickens writes, “_____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________”

8. 5. Connect your textual evidence to your answer Explain how the textual evidence helps support your answer. This quote shows _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

9. 6. Make a larger connection to the world/life Why is this something important to be writing about? How does it connect to issues in the world and life in general? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

10. Today's society is a big chaos.there are a lot of chooses that can ruin people life for ever in many ways. Children for example take decisions that an ruin their life with out they knowing. Children are innocent until they need stuff in life. Things that make them go through the wrong path. The symbolism of the children ignorance and want is really simple. "Wants" is all the poverty and things people need in life. "Wants" make people steal, cheat and a lot more of bad things. Ignorance is the roots of so many society ills. Ignorance Keeps people in deal because they do not understand what is going around them In their surroundings. In the story there are lot of example that can connect to wants and ignorance. For example Scrooge live all his life in ignorance because he did not want to see all the miserable his surroundings was.

11. As we read the story, the children ignorance and want. Those kids were Scrooge and his sister when they were really poor and ignorant. That’s probably one of the reasons Scrooge tried to get rid off of the first Christmas ghost (second stave) because Scrooge didn’t want to remember the time when he was hungry; also, no one helped his family. Scrooge also didn’t want to remember when he lost his sister. The closest person who knew Scrooge better than anyone else. Mr. Scrooge was watching his sister and himself back in those days when his life was miserable.

12. Ignorance and Want are described as children and this give us the idea that they are innocents. Sometimes the ignorance and the need are in our unconsciousness. Many people is ignorant because they don’t live the reality as the poorness or just don’t care and create an erroneous criticism. An example in the story is Scrooge that was blinded by ignorance of not wanting to know about the real needs that people face. Want was another bad defect of Scrooge because he was a person who wants to get things no matter who or who have to overcome overtake.

13. The ignorance means that he don’t care about other people's feelings. He is ignorance because the doesn't know the good things are happening to him, but he just let the things go. His girlfriend left him because he is vicious and selfish. He didn’t give time to her, so she got disappointed with him. She decided to leave him alone with money and hope him happiness. The want means he just care about money. He never is satisface with the money and he wanted more money. He took care just about money and he didn’t realize that he is losing his family and love.

14. Write a short response to the following open-ended question: Look at the scene where Scrooge first sees the Ghost of Christmas Present. The Ghost of Christmas Present is surrounded with things like holly, ivy, a cornucopia, and a big feast. What is the symbolism associated with the Ghost of Christmas Present?