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A Christmas Carol-Daily Jobs

A Christmas Carol-Daily Jobs. Read part of the Stave you are on that day . Complete the reading activity for the day. Do the center activities assigned for the day during center time (Grammar activities and illustration). Read and complete activities with at least one other person.

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A Christmas Carol-Daily Jobs

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  1. A Christmas Carol-Daily Jobs • Read part of the Stave you are on that day. • Complete the reading activity for the day. • Do the center activities assigned for the day during center time (Grammar activities and illustration). Read and complete activities with at least one other person.

  2. Stave One Questions • What is the simile in the second paragraph? What do you think in means? • Why does the narrator talk so much about Marley being dead? • Why doesn’t the weather affect Scrooge? • Compare and Contrast Scrooge. • What do the “portly gentleman” who come in after Scrooge’s nephew leave want? • How does the knocker change? • Why does Scrooge like the darkness? • What has the ghost of Marley been doing since he died? • What warning does Marley give Scrooge? • Why are the phantoms upset (end of the Stave)?

  3. Using my Context Clues • The following is a list of tricky words from the story. Choose 10 from the list OR find words that you have had trouble with and complete the following tasks • Write what you think the word means based on the sentence it is in. • Look the word up in the dictionary and write the definition. • Use the word correctly in a new sentence. Unhallowed Entreaty Impropriety Multitude Executor Trifle Resolute Tremulous Legatee Implore Lunatic Rapture Garret Covetous Replenish Credentials Congeal Misanthropic Solitary Intimation Ominous Caustic

  4. 11/29 Grammar with the Characters-(Center Time)-Subject • The subject of a sentence tells us what person, place, thing, or idea the sentence is about, or what person, place, thing, or idea is responsible for what happens in the sentence. It comes before the predicate. • This is the who or what the is doing something.The presence of the first spirit amazed Scrooge.What amazed Scrooge? The presence of the first spirit • Write 5 sentences from the part of the book you read today and label the subject. Least Tern

  5. 11/29 Grammar with the Characters-(Center Time)-Verbs • Verbs give the subjects something to do, or be • Verbs tell us what is happening, what happened, or what will happen. • The "verb" of a sentence is part of the predicateThe images of his past caused a change in Scrooge's attitude.The portly gentlemen wanted Scrooge to give money for charity. • Other parts of speech don’t make sense after a subject.I mistletoe (noun). You red (adjective). • Find 5 sentences that have examples of verbs. Write them in your notebook and underline the verb.

  6. Stave One Visual Text • Create an illustration of your favorite part in the first half of Stave One. • Write a caption explaining what is happening in your visual text. • Use color, not just pencil.

  7. 11/30 Grammar with the Characters-(Center Time)-Objects • When nouns are not subjects they are usually objects.who or what is receiving the action • The presence of the first spirit amazed Scrooge. The images of his past caused a change in Scrooge's attitude. "Scrooge" and "change" are direct objects of the verbs that precede them. They tell who or what received the action of the verb. • I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon No doubt she told him her opinion. In these two sentences "piece" and "opinion" are the direct objects. The italicized "him" in each sentence is an indirect object. Indirect objects, like all objects, must be nouns or pronouns. Indirect objects answer the question to or for whom or what did the verb act upon. • Find 4 sentences in the book that you have read so far that have indirect and direct objects. Put stars on top of the direct objects. Put squiggly lines around the indirect objects.

  8. 11/30 Grammar with the Characters(Center Time)-Prepositional Phrases • A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.Her copy of A Christmas Carol is on the table. She held her copy of A Christmas Carolover the table. She read her copy of A Christmas Carolduring class. • Away they came, flocking through the streets. There he went, and took Scrooge with him, holding to his robe • Find 5 sentences with prepositions in them and highlight the prepositional phrase. Underline the preposition in that phrase.

  9. Stave One Visual Text • Create an illustration of your favorite part in the second half of Stave One. • Write a caption explaining what is happening in your visual text. • Use color, not just pencil.

  10. Stave Two • Before ReadingWrite 3 predictions about what you think will happen next in the novel. • AS YOU READWrite down words that you have trouble with and write what you think they mean • After you ReadAnswer the questions on the next slide

  11. Stave Two Questions • What does the book say is the strangest thing about the way the first spirit looked? • How did Scrooge feel about this first spirit originally? • Who is Scrooge talking about when he says, “Poor boy!” • What might be the reason Scrooge turned out the way he did (we get a hint when Fan comes to pick him up)? • What kind of people are the Fezziwigs? • Who is Belle and why is she important to Scrooge?

  12. Connecting to the Characters • How would you feel if a ghost came to visit you and took you into the past? Why would you feel this way? • If you could go back to Christmas pasts like Scrooge, which Christmas would you go back to and why? • How did the changing between the events in Scrooge’s life change the mood of the Stave?

  13. Learning Vocabulary • Go back to the words you wrote down as you read the story. • Look the words up in a Thesaurus and find a synonym for each word. Rewrite 5 of the sentences you found the words in using the synonyms.

  14. 12/3 Grammar with the Characters(Center Time)- Simple Sentences • The most basic type of sentence is the simple sentence, which contains only one clause.Scrooge signed it. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. • Find 5 examples of simple sentences in Stave Two and write them down.

  15. 12/3 Grammar with the Characters(Center Time)-Compound Sentence • A compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses (or simple sentences) joined by coordinating conjunctions like "and", "but", and "or.“This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story.Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. • Find 5 examples and write them down. Label them compound sentence.

  16. Stave Two Visual Text • After reading the first half of Stave Two, illustrate the most life changing Christmas Scrooge experienced. • Provide a caption to explain your visual text. • Use color.

  17. 12/4 Grammar with the Characters(Center Time)-Complex Sentence • A complex sentence contains one independent clause and at least one dependent (subordinate) clause.Simple-He couldn't replenish it. Complex-He couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room. • Find 3 sentences that are complex and write them down. Label them complex sentence.

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