A thorough and detailed 33 lesson scheme of learning for A Christmas Carol. This resources contains 33 fully resourced lessons totalling over 500 PPT slides alongside accompanying worksheets. The unit starts with a cold read then goes through each stave in detail before ending with revision lessons looking at big ideas, key quotations and key extracts. Each lesson has been labelled clearly with a lesson number to make everything easy to find and ready to teach. Lessons 1-5. Cold read of each Stave with comprehension questions. Lesson 6. 19th century Context Lesson 7. Preface and Marley was dead to begin with extract Lesson 8. Scrooge’s introduction Lesson 9. Scrooge’s isolation Lesson 10. Marley’s Ghost Lesson 11. Ghost of Christmas Past Lesson 12. Scrooge’s Childhood in Stave 2 Lesson 13. Fezziwig Lesson 14 and 15. Belle Lesson 16. Ghost of Christmas Present Lesson 17. Christmas Morning Lesson 18. Cratchit Family Christmas Lesson 19. Tiny Tim Lesson 20. Christmas in remote places (miners, solitary lighthouse, ship) Lesson 21. Fred’s Party Lesson 22. Ignorance and Want Lesson 23. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Lesson 24 and 25. Stave 4 vignettes Lesson 26. Stave 5 and Scrooge’s transformation Lesson 27. Big Idea of poverty as a problem in society Lesson 28. Big idea of Christmas as a joyful time Lesson 29. Big idea of Family as the fabric of society Lesson 30. Character Revision Lesson 31. Revising 100 key quotations. Lesson 32. Revising key quotations in each stave. Lesson 33. Revision 12 key extracts

3 timelines to help explore and then revise 3 motifs in A Christmas Carol: weather, fire and children.