A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - SchoolNotes



A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [pic] Name:__________________Date:________

Stave One Questions ~

• Directions: Please write responses using complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. Use additional paper if necessary.

List three things in this chapter that prove the setting is England, 1843.

Describe three details about the difficult working conditions Scrooge’s clerk must endure.

List three character traits of Scrooge using specific evidence from the story to describe these three traits.

How does Scrooge feel about the holiday season and how do you know?

Predict: Why do you think Scrooge feels as he does about the holiday season?

What is on Marley’s chain, and what does the chain tell us about Marley?

What is the warning that Marley gives Scrooge?

Who is the protagonist in this story?

What is the main conflict in the story? [pic]

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [pic] Name:__________________Date:________

Stave Two Questions ~

• Directions: Please write responses using complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. Use additional paper if necessary.

1. What was the strangest thing about the way the spirit looked? (paragraph nineteen – sentence beginning “but the strangest thing…”)

2. What is Scrooge’s initial attitude toward the spirit?

3. What is different about Scrooge when he says, “Remember it? I could walk it with a blindfold!”

4. Who is Scrooge talking about when he says “Poor boy!”?

5. What does it tell us about Scrooge when Dickens observes “a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character”?

6. When Fan comes to pick Scrooge up, we learn a reason why Scrooge may have turned out the way he did. What is this reason?

7. What kind of people are the Fezziwigs?

8. Who is Belle and why was she important to Scrooge?

9. Why does Scrooge say, “Remove me.”

10. How does Scrooge try to "extinguish the light"? Does he succeed? What is the light a symbol of?

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [pic] Name:__________________Date:________

Stave Three Questions Part 1 ~

• Directions: Please write responses using complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. Use additional paper if necessary.

1. How is what Scrooge is thinking as he lies in bed waiting to see if the spirit appears different from the previous chapter?

2. What does the spirit look like?

3. What is this ghost’s personality like?

4. How has Scrooge’s attitude toward his being escorted by a ghost changed?

5. What is the point of the long description beginning “The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker and continuing on for several pages, to a sentence which begins: “But soon the steeples called good people all, to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes, and with their gayest faces.”

6. What are three significant things we learn about the Cratchits?

7. How is Scrooge affected by seeing the Cratchit family?

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [pic] Name:__________________Date:________

Stave Three Questions Part 2 ~

• Directions: Please write responses using complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. Use additional paper if necessary.

1.What does the Spirit mean when he says about the miners, “But they know me. See!”

2. What is the point of going to the lighthouse?

3. What is the point of going from the lighthouse to the ship?

4. What is the great surprise to Scrooge in the next paragraph after visiting the ship?

5. What would Fred think would be a positive outcome of his Christmas invitation to Scrooge? (Find the sentence beginning, “If it only…”)

6. What happens to Scrooge’s mood as the party goes on? Why do you think this happens?

7. Describe the game called “Yes and No” Scrooge witnesses at his nephew’s Christmas party.

8. What does it mean when it says the boy and the girl, “Ignorance” and “Want”, are “Man’s children”?

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [pic] Name:__________________Date:________

Stave Four Questions ~

• Directions: Please write responses using complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. Use additional paper if necessary.

1.What does the spirit of Christmas future look like?

2. What is this spirit’s personality like?

3. How does Scrooge feel about this spirit?

4. What is the point of the long discussion between Joe and Mrs. Dilber? (Hint: they relate to Scrooge’s property.)

5. What are some of the words Dickens uses to create the mood of the paragraphs that follow? What is this mood?

6. When Scrooge asks the phantom to let him "see some tenderness connected with a death,” what does the ghost show him?

7. What is the lesson Scrooge learns in this stave that he had not learned before? Why is this stave needed when Scrooge’s attitude had already changed so much?

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [pic] Name:__________________Date:________

 Stave Five Questions: “The End of It”

• Directions: Please write responses using complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. Use additional paper if necessary.

1. Why was Scrooge so surprised to find his bed curtains still on his bed?  Why did he think his bed curtains had been torn down?

2. Why is Scrooge so interested in/in love with the doorknocker?

3. What happened to Scrooge in the years after his experience?

4. One reason Dickens wrote this story was to convince people to be kinder to others.  Do you think this story helps achieve that

goal?  Cite specific evidence to explain your reasoning.

5. This story was written for several reasons.  Explain one reason.

6. What do you think is the one, single, most important conflict this story is about?  That is, what is the single-most-important

problem in the book that needs to be overcome?

7. What is the climax of this story?  Give a brief summary and relevant page number(s). 

8. What is the resolution of this story?  Give a brief summary and the page number where the resolution begins.

9. Identify one message or theme from the book.  Provide an example from the book that illustrates the theme. Give the page number(s) on which your example can be found.  (THEMES are ideas that come up again and again in the story.  They may or may not be said out loud by one of the characters; sometimes, it’s an idea that you notice keeps coming up that affects the characters and how they act). 

10. Why was Scrooge visited by Christmas spirits from the past, present, AND future?  Why not just one spirit? Explain how you arrived at this conclusion.

 

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