Name ____________________________ Date___________________
Wednesday 12/3
Complete twelve vocabulary word boxes. Words: emphatically, sole,
covetous, rime, intimation, indignantly, derived, resolute, replenish,
misanthropic, ominous, caustic. HW: Finish vocabulary.
Thursday 12/4
Read preface and Stave 1 in class.
Friday 12/5
Complete questions and twelve vocabulary boxes. Words: opaque, transparent,
melancholy, jocund, tumult, deftly, lustrous, condescension, corroborate,
conducive, laden, aspiration. HW: Finish vocabulary and answer Stave 1 questions.
Monday 12/8
Read Stave 2 in class. Complete questions and ten vocabulary boxes.
Words: consolation, subsequently, demeanor, conspicuous, exulted,
ubiquitous, tremulous, intricate, ensued, dismal. HW: Finish vocabulary and
answer Stave 2 questions.
Tuesday 12/9
Read half of Stave 3 in class. Complete eight vocabulary boxes.
Words: repute, beseech, inexorable, foreshadow, intercede, dwindle,
avarice, repulse. HW: Finish vocabulary.
Wednesday 12/10
Read the rest of Stave 3 in class. Complete questions. HW: Finish questions.
Thursday 12/11
Read Stave 4 in class. Complete questions and ten vocabulary boxes.
Words: recompense, feign, jovial, illustrious, loitered, endeavor,
amends, dispelled, infinitely, alteration. HW: Finish vocabulary and answer Stave 4
questions.
Monday 12/15
Read Stave 5 in class. Complete questions and review for test. HW: Study for test.
Tuesday 12/16
Review story and vocabulary words. Study for test. Multiple choice, fill
in the blank and short essay style questions. HW: Study for test.
Wednesday 12/17
TEST – All questions and vocabulary boxes DUE.
Thursday and Friday 12/18 – 12/19
A Christmas Carol - 1984 movie release starring George C. Scott.
Rated PG.
QUESTIONS (Answer on a lined piece of notebook paper in complete
sentences and label!)
STAVE 1
What is the simile in the second paragraph?
How is Scrooge’s nephew different from Scrooge?
What do the “portly gentlemen” want? What does Scrooge say and do?
What is the warning Marley gives Scrooge?
Why are the phantoms at the end of the stave upset?
STAVE 2
After Scrooge sees the boy reading, he makes several references to
literary characters. Explain at least two of the allusions.
What was the strangest thing about the way the spirit looked?
What is Scrooge’s initial attitude toward the spirit?
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?
Who is Belle and why was she important to Scrooge?
Why does Scrooge say “remove me.”
How does Scrooge try to “extinguish the light”? Does he succeed?
What is the light a symbol of?
STAVE 3
What does the spirit look like? What is this ghost’s personality like?
What are three significant things we learn about the Cratchit’s?
What does it mean to say the boy and the girl (Ignorance and Want)
are “Man’s children”?
STAVE 4
What does the spirit of Christmas Future look like? What is this spirit’s
personality like?
How does Scrooge feel about this spirit?
What is the lesson Scrooge learns in this stave that he had not learned
before?
STAVE 5
How has Scrooge changed? Describe his activities.
What lesson or lessons did he learn? Think about some practical
proverbs or an adage that describes his lesson and change in
personality.
You can find an online copy of this book at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Dickens/Carol/Dickens_Carol.pdf