Ideas and theme - clear ideas per quote, 2+ thoughtful ideas on theme or some ideas showing real
insight or that few would think of about themes. AO1
Methods - language methods (verbs, adjectives, abstract nouns), dramatic methods (stage directions,
dramatic irony) or more advanced methods (e.g. semantic field, sibilance, metaphor) AO2
Context and theme - links to context issues, comments on writer's message or insightful links between
both. AO3.
This extract is from Stave 1. Two charity men approach Scrooge asking
for a donation to support the vulnerable poor.
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than
usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly
at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in
want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful
course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,"
returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and
drink and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly
felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"
"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I
don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the
establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that."
"But you might know it," observed the gentleman.
"It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not
to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
Starting with this extract, explain how Dickens presents selfishness.
Write about:
- How Dickens presents selfishness in this extract.
- How Dickens presents selfishness in the novella as a whole
, Ideas and theme - clear ideas per quote, 2+ thoughtful ideas on theme or some ideas showing real
insight or that few would think of about themes. AO1
Methods - language methods (verbs, adjectives, abstract nouns), dramatic methods (stage directions,
dramatic irony) or more advanced methods (e.g. semantic field, sibilance, metaphor) AO2
Context and theme - links to context issues, comments on writer's message or insightful links between
both. AO3.
Guided Planning
Quotation from the extract:
Analysis of method(s):
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Link to context:
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Analysis of method(s):
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, Ideas and theme - clear ideas per quote, 2+ thoughtful ideas on theme or some ideas showing real
insight or that few would think of about themes. AO1
Methods - language methods (verbs, adjectives, abstract nouns), dramatic methods (stage directions,
dramatic irony) or more advanced methods (e.g. semantic field, sibilance, metaphor) AO2
Context and theme - links to context issues, comments on writer's message or insightful links between
both. AO3.
This extract is from Stave 1. The Ghost of Jacob Marley appears to be a lost
and troubled spirit, tortured by his past mistakes.
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my
own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?"
Scrooge trembled more and more.
"Or would you know," pursued the Ghost, "the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full
as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!"
Scrooge glanced about him on the floor, in the expectation of finding himself surrounded by some fifty or sixty
fathoms of iron cable: but he could see nothing.
"Jacob," he said, imploringly. "Old Jacob Marley, tell me more. Speak comfort to me, Jacob!"
"I have none to give," the Ghost replied. "It comes from other regions, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is conveyed by
other ministers, to other kinds of men. Nor can I tell you what I would. A very little more, is all permitted to me.
I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere. My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house -- mark
me! -- in life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie
before me!"
It was a habit with Scrooge, whenever he became thoughtful, to put his hands in his breeches pockets.
Pondering on what the Ghost had said, he did so now, but without lifting up his eyes, or getting off his knees.
"You must have been very slow about it, Jacob," Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with
humility and deference.
"Slow!" the Ghost repeated.
"Seven years dead," mused Scrooge. "And travelling all the time!"
"The whole time," said the Ghost. "No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse."
"You travel fast?" said Scrooge.
"On the wings of the wind," replied the Ghost.
"You might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years," said Scrooge.
The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the
night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.
"Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by
immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all
developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find
its mortalStarting
life too short for its
with this vast means
extract, of usefulness.
explain how Dickens Not to knowthe
presents that no space
theme of regret can make amends
of redemption.
for one life's opportunity
Write about: misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such was I!"
- How Dickens presents the importance of redemption in this extract.
- How Dickens presents the importance of redemption in the novella as a whole
Quotation from the extract:
Analysis of method(s):
insight or that few would think of about themes. AO1
Methods - language methods (verbs, adjectives, abstract nouns), dramatic methods (stage directions,
dramatic irony) or more advanced methods (e.g. semantic field, sibilance, metaphor) AO2
Context and theme - links to context issues, comments on writer's message or insightful links between
both. AO3.
This extract is from Stave 1. Two charity men approach Scrooge asking
for a donation to support the vulnerable poor.
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than
usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly
at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in
want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful
course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,"
returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and
drink and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly
felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"
"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I
don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the
establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that."
"But you might know it," observed the gentleman.
"It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not
to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
Starting with this extract, explain how Dickens presents selfishness.
Write about:
- How Dickens presents selfishness in this extract.
- How Dickens presents selfishness in the novella as a whole
, Ideas and theme - clear ideas per quote, 2+ thoughtful ideas on theme or some ideas showing real
insight or that few would think of about themes. AO1
Methods - language methods (verbs, adjectives, abstract nouns), dramatic methods (stage directions,
dramatic irony) or more advanced methods (e.g. semantic field, sibilance, metaphor) AO2
Context and theme - links to context issues, comments on writer's message or insightful links between
both. AO3.
Guided Planning
Quotation from the extract:
Analysis of method(s):
Link to wider text:
Link to context:
Quotation from the extract:
Analysis of method(s):
Link to wider text:
Link to context:
Quotation from the extract:
Analysis of method(s):
Link to wider text:
Link to context:
, Ideas and theme - clear ideas per quote, 2+ thoughtful ideas on theme or some ideas showing real
insight or that few would think of about themes. AO1
Methods - language methods (verbs, adjectives, abstract nouns), dramatic methods (stage directions,
dramatic irony) or more advanced methods (e.g. semantic field, sibilance, metaphor) AO2
Context and theme - links to context issues, comments on writer's message or insightful links between
both. AO3.
This extract is from Stave 1. The Ghost of Jacob Marley appears to be a lost
and troubled spirit, tortured by his past mistakes.
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my
own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?"
Scrooge trembled more and more.
"Or would you know," pursued the Ghost, "the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full
as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!"
Scrooge glanced about him on the floor, in the expectation of finding himself surrounded by some fifty or sixty
fathoms of iron cable: but he could see nothing.
"Jacob," he said, imploringly. "Old Jacob Marley, tell me more. Speak comfort to me, Jacob!"
"I have none to give," the Ghost replied. "It comes from other regions, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is conveyed by
other ministers, to other kinds of men. Nor can I tell you what I would. A very little more, is all permitted to me.
I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere. My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house -- mark
me! -- in life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie
before me!"
It was a habit with Scrooge, whenever he became thoughtful, to put his hands in his breeches pockets.
Pondering on what the Ghost had said, he did so now, but without lifting up his eyes, or getting off his knees.
"You must have been very slow about it, Jacob," Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with
humility and deference.
"Slow!" the Ghost repeated.
"Seven years dead," mused Scrooge. "And travelling all the time!"
"The whole time," said the Ghost. "No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse."
"You travel fast?" said Scrooge.
"On the wings of the wind," replied the Ghost.
"You might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years," said Scrooge.
The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the
night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.
"Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by
immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all
developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find
its mortalStarting
life too short for its
with this vast means
extract, of usefulness.
explain how Dickens Not to knowthe
presents that no space
theme of regret can make amends
of redemption.
for one life's opportunity
Write about: misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such was I!"
- How Dickens presents the importance of redemption in this extract.
- How Dickens presents the importance of redemption in the novella as a whole
Quotation from the extract:
Analysis of method(s):
