A Christmas Carol-Daily Jobs
1. Read part of the Stave you are on that
day.
2. Complete the reading activity for the
day.
3. 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.
Stave One Questions
1. What is the simile in the second paragraph? What do you
think in means?
2. Why does the narrator talk so much about Marley being
dead?
3. Why doesn’t the weather affect Scrooge?
4. Compare and Contrast Scrooge.
5. What do the “portly gentleman” who come in after
Scrooge’s nephew leave want?
6. How does the knocker change?
7. Why does Scrooge like the darkness?
8. What has the ghost of Marley been doing since he died?
9. What warning does Marley give Scrooge?
10.Why are the phantoms upset (end of the Stave)?
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
Unhallowed
Legatee
Congeal
Entreaty
Implore
Misanthropic
Impropriety
Lunatic
Solitary
Multitude
Rapture
Intimation
Executor
Garret
Ominous
Trifle
Covetous
Caustic
Resolute
Replenish
Tremulous
Credentials
 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.
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
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 predicate
The 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.
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.
Grammar with the Characters(Center Time)-Objects
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 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.
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 Carol over the table.
She read her copy of A Christmas Carol during 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.
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.
Stave Two
 Before Reading
Write 3 predictions about what you think will
happen next in the novel.
 AS YOU READ
Write down words that you have trouble with and
write what you think they mean
 After you Read
Answer the questions on the next slide
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.