PDF-BY DAVID R. HENDERSONThe Lesson of Ebenezer Scrooge

The Pursuit of Happiness n 2003 I coled a successful fight against MeasureQwhich would have increased the Monterey 40 THE FREEMAN Ideas on Liberty David Henderson davidrhenderson1950gmailcom is. Chunking. -Topic Sentence (TS). Definition: . A sentence that reveals what the content of the paragraph will address; the main idea (stated). This is the . first sentence . of any paragraph. . When responding to a . “If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.”. ---Albert Einstein. What is visualizing?. Visualizing involves picturing in your mind what is happening in the text.. . . When you visualize narrative text, you use . Literary Devices: allusion, puns. Reading skills: assessing predictions. Allusions. A reference to a movie or book. Ex. “Inconceivable!” “I do not think you know what that word means.”. “To be or not to be. . .”. Carol . Novel by Charles . Dickens. , . Play . by Frederick . Gaines. Images and . Discussion Questions. English 7/7H Mrs. Gennosa . Scene 1. Fred wishes his Uncle Ebenezer Scrooge a Merry Christmas. Describe Fred and compare him to Scrooge.. . Although . A Christmas Carol . uses a chronological structure Dickens also uses . flashback. . techniques.. . The first ‘. flashback. ’ comes in the form of the Ghost of Christmas Past. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back through time to when Ebenezer was a boy. A CHRISTMAS. CAROL. STAVE 3. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest English writers. He was born near Portsmouth, in the south of England, on 7th February 1812.. Charles Dickens died on 9th June 1870. He was 58 years old. Dickens in buried in the famous church, Westminster Abbey, in London.. Welcome back!! . . Make sure you have your SSR book.. Take out . the following papers:. Scrooge’s personality traits organizer. Theme organizer. Make sure you have a . writing utensil . and. piece of notebook paper. . . In . Stave Four, Dickens creates a sense of dread towards death with a simple plot device—the ghost of Christmas Future showing Scrooge the effects of his own death and its meaninglessness in gradual, foreboding revelations. Scrooge visits a cold and rainy London of the future, where he hears old business colleagues joking about the death of somebody they knew but did not personally care about. EVIDENCE - While Scrooge begins to sense that the subject of their discussion led a meaningless life, he does not realize that the he, himself is that subject is himself. Dickens builds this sense of dread in another scene—the dead man’s belongings have been plundered by the grimy, destitute, selfish scavengers of London. Scrooge visits these bottom-feeders as they are hawking his very own belongings in a depressing pawn shop. EVIDENCE However, Scrooge is still unaware that he is the dead miser who kept ‘everything to himself’ in life, unintentionally preserving his belongings for plunderers.. North-west Victoria (near . antwerp. ). By Shannon Baron . The Establishment of Ebenezer Mission. Ebenezer was first established in 1859 by the Moravian Church (which is a branch of the protestant religious community) on the banks of the Wimmera River just out of Antwerp Victoria.. Edward James Weintraut. Mercer University. Sources. Gerhard Florey, . Geschichte der Salzburger Emigranten und ihrer Emigration 1731-1732. (1977). Jonathan Strom, ed., . Pietism in Germany and North America 1680-1820. Rising Action Scenes. Scrooge meets Future, who does not speak (Grimm Reaper/Death).. Rising Action Scenes. Scrooge is taken to overhear a conversation between a few of his business associates – these men talk casually about the . Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Present. He symbolises __________________________. He sits on a throne of food and wear a __________ with no sword (which symbolises peace). The ghost shows Scrooge the Christmas of other people: he waves his torch to spread the Christmas Spirit, focusing on poor people as they “______________”.. Rising Action Scenes. Scrooge meets Future, who does not speak (Grimm Reaper/Death).. Rising Action Scenes. Scrooge is taken to overhear a conversation between a few of his business associates – these men talk casually about the . Play by . Isreal. . Horovitz. Setting. Describe when and where. the story takes place. Time Period. Place/. Surroundings. Historical Context. Time of Year. Why is the setting important in the play?.