A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's redemption
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of Victorian literature from 'Sherlock Holmes: short stories', 'Victorian childhood' and 'A monster within'. In those earlier units, pupils read short Victorian stories and extracts from longer texts, but in this unit they read and analyse a full Victorian novella. Pupils now gain a deeper understanding of how Victorian writers used and debated key tropes and ideas in literature. This unit prepares pupils for the first 'A Christmas Carol' deep dive, 'A ghost story', where they start to think more conceptually and critically about the novella.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts.
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of an author.
- Pupils can comment on character development as part of structural analysis.
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of texts impacts our interpretation of them.
- Pupils can write clear topic sentences.
- Pupils can select evidence from a text to support their analysis.
- Pupils can structure their arguments using Single Paragraph Outlines.
- Pupils have an understanding that power corrupts.
- Pupils can use noun appositives to give greater detail about characters.
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of Victorian literature from 'Sherlock Holmes: short stories', 'Victorian childhood' and 'A monster within'. In those earlier units, pupils read short Victorian stories and extracts from longer texts, but in this unit they read and analyse a full Victorian novella. Pupils now gain a deeper understanding of how Victorian writers used and debated key tropes and ideas in literature. This unit prepares pupils for the first 'A Christmas Carol' deep dive, 'A ghost story', where they start to think more conceptually and critically about the novella.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts.
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of an author.
- Pupils can comment on character development as part of structural analysis.
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of texts impacts our interpretation of them.
- Pupils can write clear topic sentences.
- Pupils can select evidence from a text to support their analysis.
- Pupils can structure their arguments using Single Paragraph Outlines.
- Pupils have an understanding that power corrupts.
- Pupils can use noun appositives to give greater detail about characters.
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences.
Literature
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's redemption
In this unit, pupils read and explore 'A Christmas Carol'. They start by reading the novella in full, pausing during each stave to analyse key scenes, characters, themes and methods. After reading the novella, pupils chart Scrooge's redemptive journey and craft an essay on the presentation of fear.
26 lessons in unit
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