Comprehension Questions

Stave 1

1. What is Scrooge like at the beginning?
2. Who is Fred? What is his opinion of Christmas?
3. What does Scrooge think about love?
4. How does Scrooge feel about making charitable donations?
5. Does Scrooge give Bob Cratchit Christmas day off?
6. What mistake did Marley make when he was alive?
7. What does he tell Scrooge will happen?

Stave 2

1. Who is Fan?
2. Where are they when Fan comes to see Boy (aka, Scrooge as a boy)?
3. Why does she bring him home? What does this show about past Christmases?
4. What does Scrooge learn from watching how Fezziwig treated him when he was his apprentice?
5. Why does Scrooge say he wants to talk to his clerk?
6. What happens between Scrooge and his Fiance? Why?

Stave 3

1. What trick does Martha play on her father, Bob Cratchit?
2. What evidence is there that Tiny Tim is dealing with an illness/condition?
3. What does the spirit reveal to Scrooge about what will happen to Tiny Tim?
4. What does Mrs. Cratchit think of Scrooge? What is Bob’s response?
5. What is Fred’s reasoning for not being mad at Scrooge?
6. Why does the spirit say to fear the boy (ignorance) most?
7. What is thrown back in Scrooge’s face at the end of the Stave?

Stave 4

1. The first thing the Spirit has Scrooge listen to is a conversation. What are the men discussing?
2. What kind of shop does the Spirit take Scrooge to next?
3. Scrooge observes two people who used to work with him at the shop doing what?
4. What do we find out has changed about the Cratchit family?
5. What day is it when Scrooge wakes up?
6. When he calls out the window to the boy, what does he have him do?
7. Where does Scrooge go on Christmas day?
8. How does Scrooge treat Bob Cratchit when they return to work the day after Christmas?

Other Versions

1. Diva’s Christmas Carol 
2. Scrooged – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je4QCA5KCucand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc_4eoSHwK8&t=29s
3. Barbie Christmas Carol 
4. Suite Life on Deck
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Carol 

 

 Research links:

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 OTHER SOURCES

A Christmas Carol webquest

Webquest

Download your own copy of A Christmas Carol to use in class!

– I will put the doc up when we begin reading

History

A Brief History of the Victorian Era

Work Houses

Children

Entertainment

Victorian forms of entertainment

Video of Victorian Dancing

Mr. and Mrs. Steinmeier dancing on the news!

Etiquette

Etiquette Rules
A Satire of Victorian Etiquette

Fashion

Victorian Fashion

Charles Dickens

A Short Bio

 

More!

Victorian Slang
Dickens’ London Game
Victorian Fashion Game
Dickensian Name Generator
Another Video of Victorian Dancing