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A Christmas Carol Packet

 

Charles Dickens Video

 

DIRECTIONS: As you watch the video biography on Charles Dickens, circle the best answer for each question.

 

1. According to experts, what have the works of Charles Dickens withstood?                                                                                                                        a) the test of time          b) floods                           c) critics               
2. When Dickens lived, what was changing rapidly in the world?                                                                                                                                      a) values                   b) houses                           c) the way people dressed

3. What did Dickens’s father’s carelessness with money threaten?                                                                                                                                    a) his wife’s health          b) the family security         c) the food supply
4. According to Dickens, what seems like a long time when you’re only 12 or 13?                                                                                                             a) a day                   b) a year                           c) an hour
5. How would Dickens describe the law?                                                                                                                                                                        a) exciting          b) pleasurable                  c) boring
6. When Dickens wrote sketches, what were they first published in?                                                                                                                                a) books          b) magazines                           c) the newspaper
7. What was The Pickwick Papers?                                                                                                                                                                                a) a tv series b) a drama                           c) a comedy
8. What was Dickens always searching for?                                                                                                                                                                    a) his great love b) a great plot                  c) strength
9. What broke hearts the world over?                                                                                                                                                                            a) when Charles married b) Little Nell’s death c) Charles’s death
10. What did Dickens always wonder about?                                                                                                                                                                    a) whether he made the right choices in life                                                                                                                                                               b) whether he made his books interesting enough                                                                                                                                                      c) whether he made the most money
11. What part of Dickens’s life was not relieved by Ellen’s presence?                                                                                                                                  a) his loneliness                                                                                                                                                                                                       b) his lack of motivation                                                                                                                                                                                           c) his desire for good food

 

Vocabulary List

 

DIRECTIONS: There are 39 vocabulary words for this unit. Use the glossary of the green literature book to write the definitions.

 

1. Capital:___________________________________________________

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2. Compound:_________________________________________________

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3. Supplicate:________________________________________________

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4. Perceptible:________________________________________________

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5. Perceive:__________________________________________________

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6. Recompensed:_______________________________________________

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7. Audible:___________________________________________________

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8. Compulsion:________________________________________________

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9. Aspiration:________________________________________________

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10. Deliberate:________________________________________________

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11. Supplication:_______________________________________________

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12. Imperceptible:_____________________________________________

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13. Perception:________________________________________________

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14. Supposition:_______________________________________________

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15. Inaudible:_________________________________________________

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16. Compulsory:_______________________________________________

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17. Compel:__________________________________________________

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18. Aspire:__________________________________________________

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19. Implore:__________________________________________________

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20. Immortal:_________________________________________________

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21. Benevolent:_______________________________________________

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22. Apparition:________________________________________________

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23. Replenish:________________________________________________

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24. Veneration:_______________________________________________

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25. Incessant:________________________________________________

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26. Melancholy:_______________________________________________

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27. Destitute:________________________________________________

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28. Specter:_________________________________________________

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29. Gruel:___________________________________________________

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30. Fancy:___________________________________________________

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31. Inexplicable:______________________________________________

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32. Covetous:_________________________________________________

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33. Anonymous:________________________________________________

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34. Trivial:__________________________________________________

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35. Suppose:_________________________________________________

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36. Province:_________________________________________________

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37. Array:___________________________________________________

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38. Persevered:_______________________________________________

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39. Feign:___________________________________________________

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Stave One Follow Along

 

DIRECTIONS: Use the word bank before each stave to complete the summaries. Each blank represents one word.

 

Word Bank

 

dismisses                     One                            seventh

rings                            alone                            gentlemen

home                            knocker                     cellar

partner                     death                            imagination

rudely                            poor                            invites

bell                            counting                     nephew

tavern                            grants                            clerk

Ghost                            ghost                            locks

refuses                     hallucination                     money

December                     settles                     dinner

bedroom                     title                            wish

face                           

 

         “Marley’s _____________” is the _____________ of Stave _____________. Ebeneezer Scrooge sits in his _____________ house. The day is _____________ twenty-fourth, which is also the _____________ anniversary of the _____________ of Scrooge’s _____________, Jacob Marley.

         Scrooge’s _____________ pays a call and _____________ Scrooge to Christmas _____________. Scrooge _____________ his offer coldly. The nephew is followed by two _____________ asking for _____________ for the _____________. Miserly Scrooge says, “I _____________ to be left _____________,” and _____________ his visitors _____________. Finally, even though he does not want to, Scrooge _____________ his _____________ Christmas Day off.

 

 

After a(n) melancholy dinner in a(n) _____________ and more work, Scrooge goes _____________. As he is about to enter his house, he is startled to see Marley’s _____________ in his door _____________. But the undisturbed Scrooge dismisses the sight as a(n) _____________, a trick of the _____________.

         Later, as Scrooge _____________ himself in his bedroom and _____________ in for the night, every _____________ in the house suddenly _____________. A clanging noise coming from the _____________ follows. The sound nears the _____________. Then, to Scrooge’s horror, Marley’s _____________ bursts through the door.

 

 

Stave Two Follow Along

 

DIRECTIONS: Use the word bank before each stave to complete the summaries. Each blank represents one word.

 

Word Bank

 

watches                     Ghost                     treats

child                            Scrooge              regret

introduces                     curtains              hair

Fezziwig’s                     passion              poorly

Food                            apprentices              old

awakens                     one                     money

Past                            heart                     scene

engagement                     night                     Belle

explains                     gives                     exhausted

clock                            light                     begs

wall                            bedroom              party

year                            throws              visions

Stave                            welfare              hapiness

Spirits                            drawn                     love

Travel                            stands                     clerk

 

         The First of the Three _____________ is the title of _____________ Two. When Scrooge _____________, the _____________ is striking _____________. Then, the _____________ of his bed are _____________ aside, and there _____________ a ghost with long white _____________ and giving off a strange _____________ from his head. The figure was like a(n) _____________ and yet like an _____________ man both at the same time. The spirit _____________ itself as The _____________ of Christmas _____________. It tells _____________ that it is there for his _____________. Scrooge touches the ghost’s _____________ and they pass through the _____________ and into the _____________.

 

         Scrooge and the spirit _____________ to _____________ where Scrooge and Dick Wilkins are _____________. Every _____________ on Christmas Eve, Fezziwig _____________ a big _____________ with lots of _____________ and drinks. Scrooge tells the spirit that Fezziwig _____________ more than _____________, he gives _____________. The _____________ reminds him of how _____________ he _____________ his own _____________.

         Next, Scrooge _____________ his former fiancee, _____________, break their _____________. She _____________ that Scrooge’s _____________ for wealth is greater than his _____________ for her. Overcome by _____________ and self-pity, Scrooge _____________ the spirit to end the _____________. Scrooge again finds himself in his own _____________ and falls asleep, _____________.

 

 

Stave Three Follow Along

 

DIRECTIONS: Use the word bank before each stave to complete the summaries. Each blank represents one word.

 

Word Bank

 

homes                     cheerful              drink

founder              crutch                     spirit

lesson                     title                     phantom

dislikes              food                     play

ending                     twelve                     merry

mist                     London              light

giant                     Present              vibrate

unhappy              teaches              pitites

walk                     awakens              living

ghost                     feast                     heart

Second              disappears              close

criticized              clerk                     son

toast                     asks                     home

shaken              rich                     hooded

invite                     Three                     hope

nephew              sing                     Changed                                                                 

 

         The _____________ of Stave _____________ is “The _____________ of the Three Spirits.” Scrooge _____________ to find the Ghost of Christmas _____________ in the next room. The _____________ is a jolly _____________ sitting on a throne of _____________. Scrooge, already _____________ since the previous visit, meekly _____________ to learn the spirit’s _____________.

            The _____________ takes Scrooge to the _____________ of poor Bob Cratchit, Scrooge’s _____________. Scrooge sees that Cratchit’s _____________, Tiny Tim, cannot _____________ without a(n) _____________. The only _____________ moment, though, at the Cratchit’s _____________ comes when Cratchit wants to _____________ Scrooge, the _____________ of the feast. As much as the family _____________ Scrooge, they quickly _____________ the toast and grow _____________ again.

                  The ghost and Scrooge then go back to _____________ to visit the home of Scrooge’s _____________, Fred. Again, Scrooge hears himself being _____________. But Fred says he merely _____________ Scrooge and will continue to _____________ him. Scrooge watches as his nephew and his company _____________ and _____________ games. Scrooge actually becomes _____________ of _____________ as he watches them.

         Next, the spirit takes Scrooge to many _____________, and always with a happy _____________. Sickbeds become _____________, foreign lands seem _____________ to home, poverty becomes _____________, and struggling men have _____________. The spirit _____________ Scrooge his lessons of _____________.

         The clock strikes _____________, and the spirit _____________. But as the last stroke of the clock ceases to _____________, Scrooge sees a solemn _____________, draped and _____________, coming like a(n) _____________ along the ground toward him.

 

 

 

Staves Four & Five Follow Along

 

DIRECTIONS: Use the word bank before each stave to complete the summaries. Each blank represents one word.

 

Word Bank

 

district                     approaches                     bedpost

tombstone                     unwatched                     gestures

discussing                     uncared                     death

bedroom                     guides                            bed

name                            Change                     chance

stolen                            collapses                     back

turkey                     raise                            shrouded

lives                            laundress                     low

charwoman                     Christmas                     grieving

businessmen                     Cratchit                     buys

horrified                     cemetery                     kindest

spirit                            died                            goods

tenderness                     cloak                            begs

visits                            keep                            request

proves                            blankets                     identity

communicates              unknown                     reveal

impression                     garments                     curtains

shows                            nephew

 

 

         The third _____________, _____________ in a deep, black _____________ silently _____________ Scrooge. This spirit--The Ghost of _____________ Yet to Be--eerily _____________ only through _____________.

         Scrooge and the spirit go to the city’s “_____________ --” the business _____________. There they hear some _____________ coldly _____________ a(n) acquaintence who has just _____________.

         The spirit then _____________ Scrooge to a(n) _____________ shop. A(n) _____________, _____________, and an undertaker’s man enter, bringing _____________ they have _____________ from the same dead man. Scrooge is _____________ as the charwoman reveals her _____________: the _____________ and _____________ from the dead man’s _____________.

            Scrooge next finds himself in the dead man’s _____________. The still _____________ man is _____________, unkept, and _____________ for. To balance the _____________ left by this scene, Scrooge asks to see some _____________ connected with a(n) _____________. He is shown the _____________ family, who are _____________ over Tiny Tim’s death.

         Then Scrooge makes another _____________ of the ghost--to _____________ the _____________ of the dead man. The spirit leads him to a(n) _____________ and reveals Scrooge’s own _____________ upon a(n) _____________. Scrooge earnestly _____________ for another _____________, promising to change. Even as he begs, the spirit _____________ into a(n) _____________. Scrooge is _____________ in his own room.

         Scrooge at once _____________ how much he has changed. He _____________ a huge _____________ for the Cratchit’s, and then _____________ his _____________ for Christmas dinner. The next day he gives Bob Cratchit a(n) _____________.

         Even afterwards, Scrooge _____________ himself to be the _____________ of men, helping Tiny Tim (who _____________) and many others. He truly becomes a man who “knows how to _____________ Christmas.”

Short Answers

 

DIRECTIONS: Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

 

1. How does Scrooge act toward other people at the beginning of the

story?_________________________________________________________

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2. What is the most important thing in life to both Fred and Bob Cratchit?______

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3. How does Marley show himself to be a true friend of Scrooge?_____________

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4. How is Fezziwig different from Scrooge?____________________________

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5. What is the first sign of a change in Scrooge?________________________

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6. What do you think the Ghost of Christmas Present means when he says, “You

have never seen the likes of me before”?______________________________

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7. Near the end of the story, why does Bob Cratchit think about knocking Scrooge

down and calling for a straight jacket?_______________________________

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8. What are four things Scrooge does at the end of the story that shows how

much he has changed?____________________________________________

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Find repentance (page 285) and shrouded (page 291) in the story and look up the meaning of each in the glossary.

 

9. What does Scrooge’s fiancee say he would feel repentance for?____________

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10. What is Scrooge repentant about when he sees this scene again?___________

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11. Why is shrouded a better word than cloaked to describe the Ghost of

Christmas Yet to Come?__________________________________________

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