Designed for low ability students, this lesson starts by considering Scrooge’s character arc through the novel and the ways in which his character has changed and developed. Students then read Stave 5 and collect a range of sentence and language techniques used by Dickens to show ways his character has developed.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson explores reactions to Scrooge’s death in Stave 4.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson takes students through close textual analysis of the presentation of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson walks students through analysis of key quotes for Ignorance and Want. The lesson then considers how and why Dickens juxtaposes Ignorance and Want with Tiny Tim.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson considers the presentation of Fred’s Christmas, as well as Scrooge’s character development by this point in the novel.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson considers the areas of poverty on Charles Booth’s map of London, before exploring key quotes about poverty in the christmases Scrooge visits in Stave 3.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson considers historical representations of Christmas, before exploring key descriptions of the Ghost of Christmas Present through close textual analysis.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson explores the theme of rejection through key quotes from the section between Belle and Scrooge.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson explores the character of Fezziwig. through a range of activities, students contrast Fezziwig’s attitude as an employer with Scrooge.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson explores Scrooge’s childhood. Through a range of acvitivities, students explore how a person’s past experience can shape them as an adult.

This lesson explores the description of the Ghost of Christmas Past for low ability students, focusing on Dickens’ use of symbolism in its physical appearance.

This lesson explores the section of Stave 1 when Marley’s Ghost visits Scrooge. Symbolism is explored through close textual analysis of key descriptions of Marley’s Ghost.

This lesson is designed for low ability learners. It begins by asking them to consider why charity exists before exploring information relating to charity in the Victorian era. The lesson then moves on to consider the attitudes towards charity presented by Fred and the Portly Gentlemen through a range of close textual analysis tasks.

This lesson introduces low ability students to the use of a structure strip to guide them through the written analysis of Scrooge’s character in the early part of the novel. The structure strip uses the ‘what? How? Why?’ model promoted by AQA in their recent examiner’s report for English literature. The lesson takes students through am ‘I do, we do, you do’ approach, before they used a simplified AQA Literature mark scheme to self / peer assess / or the class teachers assesses their analysis.

A lesson designed to explore the introduction of Scrooge’s character to the novel at a lower ability level. The lesson focuses on the connotations of coldness, through a range of tasks which support lower ability students to explore concrete and abstract interpretations of key quotes used to describe Scrooge.

This lesson explores the theme of Christmas, encouraging lower ability students to consider their own values around this festival, as well as the ways Victorian attitudes were different.

A context lesson to the study of A Christmas Carol where students are taken through a range of tasks in which they recall prior knowledge and are introduce to knew contextual knowledge about the Poor Law revelent to study of the novel. All tasks are designed for the needs of lower ability students.

An introductory lesson to the study of A Christmas Carol where students are taken through a range of tasks in which they recall prior knowledge and are introduce to knew contextual knowledge revelent to study of the novel. All tasks are designed for the needs of lower ability students.

This is a full scheme of work designed for A Level students studying for the edexcel A Level exams. The unit works through the prologue and then tale in chronological order, with contextual study interspersed throughout. Each lesson is supported by preparation homework for students, which allows them to attend lessons having read and analysed key passages, ready for discussion an further analysis in class. There are also two assessment points in the unit, with markscheme attached.

Designed for the needs of low ability learners, these lessons take students through a range of tasks which explore the form, language, structure and context of the poem.