Teaching A Christmas Carol | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Chapter 1 MOOD - In the opening chapter of the novel, Charles Dickens goes to great lengths to create a particular mood for the piece. The mood of a piece is the way that a reader feels when reading it. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the mood of the opening chapter, and to discover the tools and techniques that Charles Dickens employed...
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