A Christmas Carol Assessment Preparation

A Christmas Carol Assessment Preparation

You will need your copies of A Christmas Carol and a pen and paper for this lesson.

Assessment Objectives

AO1: Read, understand and respond to texts maintaining a critical style, developing an informed personal response, using textual references to support and illustrate interpretations.

AO2: Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects using relevant subject terminology.

AO3: Show understanding of the relationships between texts and contexts in which they were written.

The Assessment

• This assessment will test, through an extract based response, knowledge and understanding of the 19th century prose novel.

• Learners will be expected to comment upon the context of the prose text, the language, structure and form of the text and key themes, characters and ideas within the text. 

• You will be expected to write 4 paragraphs on the extract, and 6 paragraphs on the novel as a whole.

Last Assessment's Feedback

• •Over use of the terms capitalist and socialist – these should not be used in every paragraph – scatter them about your essay a maximum of two times. Use other words to describe Scrooge!

• Give thoughtful analysis – zoom in on two words in the quote and analyse their connotations and their significance to Dicken’s message.

• Write about Dicken’s intentions, purpose and message for including characters/themes.

• Embed your quotes!

• Please use capitals for characters' name and apostrophes to show belonging!

Multiple Choice

In what century was A Christmas Carol written?

• 18th

• 19th

• 20th

Multiple Choice

Dickens' message: "I have endeavoured in this _____ little book, to raise the ghost of an idea [...] may it _____ their houses"

• terrifying, shock

• miserly, scare

• ghostly, haunt

Multiple Choice

Dickens' message: "I have endeavoured in this _____ little book, to raise the ghost of an idea [...] may it _____ their houses"

• terrifying, shock

• miserly, scare

• ghostly, haunt

Multiple Select

What does Scrooge represent for Dickens in the novel?

• Every individual can change the course of others lives.

• Our past doesn't have to define who we become.

• Valuing profits over people is sinful.

• The course of history can be changed from today.

Scrooge

• "If they had rather die [...] they had better do it and decrease the surplus population"

• "I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been"

Multiple Choice

Complete the quote from Fred: Christmas is a time "to think of people below them as fellow _______ to the grave, and not another race of _______ bound on other journeys"

• passengers, creatures

• people, scoudrels

Multiple Select

What does Fred represent in the novel?

• We should be kind to every person we meet regardless of class - we are all humans.

• You should abandon family who you can't reach out to.

• Life is incredibly short and we should value every moment and every connection.

Fred

"I mean to give him the same chance every year"

"Christmas is a good time; a king, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time"

"The pleasantest spoken gentleman"

Bob Cratchit

Bob Cratchit’s role in the novella is to represent the plight of the poor, as he is an immediate source of sympathy in the novella.

Dickens depicts him as a loving father and husband, which humanises the working class.

Usually in Victorian literature, the working class were depicted as peripheral, unimportant characters. In the works of Dickens he defies these expectations. presenting the lower class in a positive light and as multi-faceted characters.

Multiple Choice

What is Bob Cratchit's job?

• Cleaner

• Clerk

• Cook

Bob Cratchit

"The clerk's fire was so much smaller"

"Bob's voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled even more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and healthy"

"Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said.

"My little, little child!" cried Bob. "My little child!"

Multiple Select

What percentage of funerals in 1839 were for children under 10?

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%