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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens. The Inimitable. Karenward@clovisusd.k12.ca.us. What can we learn from Dickens and his work?. How can we apply what we learn to our lives today?. View the next 7 slides then predict the setting (time and location) in which Dickens lived. Dickens House Museum.

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Charles Dickens

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  1. Charles Dickens The Inimitable Karenward@clovisusd.k12.ca.us

  2. What can we learn from Dickens and his work? How can we apply what we learn to our lives today?

  3. View the next 7 slides then predict the setting (time and location) in which Dickens lived.

  4. Dickens House Museum

  5. City streets—people & places

  6. Dickens lived during a period of contradictions.

  7. child labor

  8. Dickens—his life and works

  9. Charles Dickens

  10. “Dickens’ greatest friendship was, from the beginning, with his audience.”

  11. “In all of English literature, his creativity is rivaled only by Shakespeare's.”

  12. How did Dickens influence Victorian and modern Christmas traditions?

  13. “..it was the Christmas stories of Dickens that rekindled the joy of Christmas in Britain and America.”

  14. “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book….

  15. to raise the Ghost of an Idea…

  16. May it haunt their houses pleasantly,

  17. And no one wish to lay it down.” Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

  18. Literary Quotes

  19. Bah Humbug!

  20. "Mankind was my business.” Ignorance & Want

  21. “I wear the chains I forged in life.”

  22. Bibliography • David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Pagehttp://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens • TNT’s A Christmas Carolhttp://tnt.turner.com/movies/tntoriginals/xmascarol/ • Charles Dickens Gad’s Hill Placehttp://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/ • Charles Dickens Victorian Web Sitehttp://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html • Victorianahttp://www.victoriana.com/welcome/ • The World of Charles Dickenshttp://www.geocities.com/pdubelbeis/

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