PPT-Show what you remember about Marley's visit to Scrooge in Stave 1 by completing these

Marleys ghost warns Scrooge that Marleys ghost informs Scrooge that he will be visited by Marleys ghost shows Scrooge a terrible vision of Objective To read and understand Stave 2. “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. . .”. Grammar: 4 types of sentences. Literary devices: . similes. , characterization. Reading skill: summarizing. Stave 1. Read for:. Tone – sarcasm. Images – fun ways of describing things. Stereotypes (broad, predictable characters). . . 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.. 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 . Unhallowed (1)- adj., not regarded as holy or sacred . Entreaty (2)- n., a serious and passionate request. Impropriety (4)- n., conduct that is not considered correct, moral, or appropriate in a given context. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.. Recall one simile used to describe Scrooge.. What do animals do when they see Scrooge?. What is the defining feature of Bob . Cratchit’s. cell?. Why does Scrooge sneer at his nephew?. What does ‘humbug’ mean?. 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 . “. Dickens manipulates the readers through religious sensibilities, real life examples of Victorian attitudes to poverty and using a Christian time of celebration to create a long-standing and relevant message about humanity. Stave One. The novella begins on Christmas Eve with Scrooge, a mean and miserly man working in his counting-house. His clerk, Bob . Cratchit. , is working hard and trying to warm himself over a candle as Scrooge refuses to give him more coal.. Written in 1843. 6,000 copies were sold between . D. ec 19. th. and Dec 24. th. 1843. 30 million copies were sold by 2014 – showing the universal popularity of a story about . change and redemption. 2. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to see himself as a lonely child in school; to see his old boss, Fezziwig; and to see his former fiancée breaking off their engagement. . 3. The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to see the Cratchit family and his nephew, Fred, at Christmas. He also shows Scrooge the children Ignorance and Want..