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C/L. Tuesday 28 th November 2017. Stave Two: Scrooge as a solitary child. LESSON OBJECTIVE: To explore clues we get of Scrooge’s childhood. LESSON OUTCOME: To write a response using key quotations. A reminder. Christmas Carol is for Paper 1 of your English Literature GCSE.

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  1. C/L Tuesday 28th November 2017 Stave Two: Scrooge as a solitary child LESSON OBJECTIVE: To explore clues we get of Scrooge’s childhood. LESSON OUTCOME: To write a response using key quotations.

  2. A reminder Christmas Carol is for Paper 1 of your English Literature GCSE. You will write an essay. You will be assessed on these assessment objectives: AO1 How detailed, thoughtful and critical your ideas are. How “out-of-the-box” is your analysis. Use quotations to support your amazing ideas! AO2 Zoom in on words in a quotation, sentence structures or punctuation and explain their effect. USE SUBJECT TERMINOLOGY TOO! AO3 Context Link in Dickens’ ideas and the Victorian times

  3. What would you expect a child to be like on christmas day?

  4. Let’s read what it was like for scrooge from page 36 “They went, the ghost and scrooge, across the hall…” Very important: Scrooge read a lot of books as a child. Why do you think he did?

  5. Find 3 quotations that you think create sympathy for scrooge!

  6. How does dickens create sympathy for scrooge? Dickens creates sympathy for Scrooge in Stave Two because when Scrooge sees himself as a child at boarding school alone, he shouts “where have you been Robin Crusoe?” when he remembers the old adventure books he read as a child. This illustrates how as a child, Scrooge had to read a lot as a way of company and ease his loneliness because he was left alone and neglected at boarding school over the Christmas holidays. It also highlights how much Scrooge must have cared about these characters because he clearly seems excited when he remembers him, therefore Scrooge relied on them as friends and possibly relied on the books as an escape from his lonely and solemn childhood. The phrase “where have you been” creates a lot of sympathy because it suggests that Scrooge has missed reading these books and it’s as if this character, in his eyes, was really close and important to him.

  7. How does dickens create sympathy for scrooge? Dickens creates sympathy for Scrooge in Stave Two because when Scrooge sees himself as a child at boarding school alone…

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