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Using Textual Clues to Understand A Christmas Carol
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Using Textual Clues to Understand A Christmas Carol

Collector: Ann V.
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Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol offers students a chance to practice their close reading skills. Using the provided worksheets, readers examine context clues to determine the meanings of words, direct and indirect characterization clues to understand Scrooge’s complex nature, and quotations from the tale that reveals the theme of Dickens' classic tale.

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Concepts

a christmas carol, academic vocabulary, british literature, characterization, charles dickens, close reading, context clues, diction, gender roles, ghosts, inferences, literary analysis, literary devices, literary themes, making inferences, plot, symbolism, syntax, historical context, social classes, textual analysis, the victorian era, universal themes

Resource Details

Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Common Core

RL.6.1 RL.6.2 RL.6.3 RL.6.4 RL.6.5 RL.6.6 RL.6.7 RL.6.8 RL.6.9 RL.6.10 RL.7.1 RL.7.2 RL.7.3 RL.7.4 RL.7.5 RL.7.6 RL.7.7 RL.7.8 RL.7.9 RL.7.10 RL.8.1 RL.8.2 RL.8.3 RL.8.4 RL.8.5 RL.8.6 RL.8.7 RL.8.8 RL.8.9 RL.8.10 RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.3

Collection Items

    Language Analysis Based on Stave 1

    Language Analysis Based on Stave 1

    Lesson Plan
    Worksheet 1: Identifying the Meanings of Words and Phrases (.pdf)

    Worksheet 1: Identifying the Meanings of Words and Phrases (.pdf)

    Worksheet
    Worksheet 1: Identifying the Meanings of Words and Phrases - Teachers Version (.pdf)

    Worksheet 1: Identifying the Meanings of Words and Phrases - Teachers Version (.pdf)

    Answer Key
    Scrooge as He is Revealed during the Ghostly Experiences

    Scrooge as He is Revealed during the Ghostly Experiences

    Lesson Plan
    Worksheet 2: Understanding Scrooge (.pdf)

    Worksheet 2: Understanding Scrooge (.pdf)

    Worksheet
    Worksheet 2: Understanding Scrooge - Teachers version (.pdf)

    Worksheet 2: Understanding Scrooge - Teachers version (.pdf)

    Answer Key
    Theme Analysis in A Christmas Carol

    Theme Analysis in A Christmas Carol

    Lesson Plan
    Worksheet 3: Deducing Themes (.pdf)

    Worksheet 3: Deducing Themes (.pdf)

    Worksheet
    Worksheet 3: Deducing Themes - Teachers Version (.pdf)

    Worksheet 3: Deducing Themes - Teachers Version (.pdf)

    Answer Key
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