A Christmas Carol (7 week KS3 Year 7 or 8) scheme of work

A 6-7 week scheme of work on A Christmas Carol. This unit has been used with a Year 7 class and is easily adaptable for Year 8. For the class I created this scheme for, I had an EAL pupil in the group (Portuguese) so I’ve included the EAL resources I made for him in the hope that you can just adapt them to suit any EAL pupils of your own by copying and pasting the tasks in English into Google Translate for the relevant language. PowerPoints also contain instructions in Portuguese alongside the task in English, again these can be deleted or translated into the appropriate language on Google. Please do not think these differentiation resources are the work of an EAL expert- they are what worked for my individual pupil and you will need to adapt them to be suitable for your own pupils, but I do hope it is a starting point.

PowerPoints are entire lessons/ a week worth of lessons and have objectives phrased using Blooms. Differentiated for all pupils as well as EAL. Main focus is very much on reading and analysis skills, using the PEE chain and selecting relevant quotations, so a useful scheme to start building these skills in Year 7.

The scheme of work as a whole looks like this:
Week 1- Context research; looking at Ch 1 and the presentation of Scrooge; PEE and analysis work; colour coded exemplar PEE paragraphs included.
Week 2- Ghost of Christmas Past; PEE and analysis work; selecting relevant quotations.
Week 3- Analysis of a Scrooge extract (his home and melancholy dinner); court room activity to gather evidence; more PEE practise and analysis work.
Week 4- The Cratchits; making and filimg a persuasive charity advert using Ipads/ IMovie though can ve aadapted to a written task.
Week 5- Ghost of Christmas Future; gathertin quotes; comparing Scrooge at the end of the novel to how he was at the beginning, so synthesis work.
Week 6- Choice of written task, Scrooge’s diary or 3rd person recount; Anne Frank and diary style.
Week 7- Scrooge’s first Christmas card; worksheet to complete whilst watching the film version of A Christmas Carol (useful if your school is one of those where kids need to be doing a task linked to the film if they are watching one!)