A Christmas Carol: Stave One - Key Quotations, Vocabulary and PEEL Paragraphs

Enhance your students’ understanding of A Christmas Carol with these detailed, ready-to-use resources for Stave One. Designed for GCSE, English Literature students, these materials cover key themes, characters, language features, and more, enabling students to engage with the text in a meaningful way.

Included Resources
Comprehensive Mind Map Template: Help students visually organize their understanding of Stave One by using a mind map that explores key aspects of the text:

PEEL Paragraph Examples: Equip students with the structure and language needed to write high-quality PEEL paragraphs, helping them to:

• Analyze Scrooge’s character and attitudes toward Christmas.
• Examine atmosphere and setting, including the use of pathetic fallacy and imagery.
• Explore Marley’s ghost and its significance.
• Develop ideas around themes of social responsibility, isolation, and redemption.

Extract-Based Questions: Encourage critical thinking with targeted questions that guide students to explore the characters and themes in Stave One.

Scrooge’s character: His attitude towards the poor and his Christmas spirit.

Key Quotations: Provide students with crucial quotations to focus on setting and characters.

Vocabulary Lists: Support vocabulary acquisition with a list of key terms to describe the setting, Scrooge’s character, and the atmosphere, including words like “miserly,” “cold-hearted,” “eerie,” and “oppressive.”