GCSE AQA 'A Christmas Carol' Exam Questions: Social Injustice, Christmas, Redemption

This is an AQA GCSE resource on 'A Christmas Carol'. It contains three extract-based questions on the themes of Social Injustice, Christmas and Redemption (as word documents) and a power-point.

The power-point guides students through an introduction to the three themes, ways to annotate the extracts by focusing on the GCSE exam criteria e.g. quotation / method / writer's message. It also then shows students how to find links to the question from the rest of the novella.

There are two very thorough GCSE plans on the extract question on Christmas and Social Injustice. These take students through the stages of how to annotate the exam paper to find 3 quotes and then 3 quotations from the rest of the novella. There is then an opportunity to do an independent GCSE, timed response on Redemption.

One of the slides on the power-point does focus in on level 4 criteria ('clear') but all level descriptors are given so this can be adapted to suit all abilities.