A Christmas Carol Scrooge PowerPoint: GCSE English Literature Lesson

A complete GCSE English Literature lesson on Scrooge’s transformation in A Christmas Carol, following him stave by stave from a “covetous old sinner” to “as good a man” as the city knew. It covers the key quotations, Victorian context, Dickens’s message about poverty and an exam style extract question with a mark scheme.

• 31 slides
• GCSE English Literature
• A Christmas Carol
• Key quotations
• Exam question and mark scheme
• Teacher notes
• Fully editable

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What the lesson covers

1. Starter and key words: a plot recap quiz, eight key terms and a timeline of the five staves.
2. Context: the 1834 Poor Law and workhouses, Malthus and “surplus population”, and Dickens’s own childhood.
3. Stave 1, the miser: “Bah! Humbug!”, “solitary as an oyster” and a close look at Marley’s chain.
4. Staves 2 to 4, the three spirits: what each spirit teaches Scrooge, the signs of his change, and Ignorance and Want.
5. Stave 5, reborn: “as light as a feather”, “a second father” and a Stave 1 and Stave 5 comparison.
6. Dickens’s message: why Scrooge’s change matters to Dickens’s Victorian readers.
7. Tasks and exam practice: quotation quizzes, an AQA style extract question, a six level mark scheme, a model paragraph and common mistakes.

Who it is for

GCSE English Literature teachers and students studying A Christmas Carol. The exam question is written in the style of AQA Paper 1, and the lesson works just as well for Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas. Every slide has teacher notes, and quiz answers are on the slides that follow each task.

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