A Christmas Carol~England~

Savannah MarshallKara Gaspari

13.1.12

Important Days in England• January- New Years Day

• February- Kissing Friday (a day where schoolboys can kiss a girl without the fear of rejection and punishment)

• March- Mother’s Day• April- St. Georges Day (church festival of St. George)

• May- Oak Apple Day (birth of Charles II)• June- The Queen’s Official birthday

• July- London 2012 Olympic Games (this year)• August- Notting Hill Carnival (Europe's biggest carnival)

• September- Harvest festival• October- Trafalgar Day

• November- All Saints Day and All Souls Day• December- Christmas

Connections

• Text-to-text- Not sure.• Text-to-self- Thinking about my past to make

me think about what I am today• Text-to-world- Greed

Themes• Greed- Scrooge is very greedy when

it comes to his money• Self-worth- even though Tiny Tim and

his family have very little worry they all seem to keep their heads up

• Happiness- after Scrooge is visited by the ghosts he looks at life a different

way and is happy

Views

• My view on, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, hasn’t changed. I learned that people in old time England had apprenticeships, they

were very proper, in Scrooge’s case, very greedy, cherish family time, and want to help

out the poor.

Seen a ghost

Been an appr-entice

No family

Scrooge

Been in love

Giving

Happy

Marshall

Has a family

Never been an

appr-entice

Never seen a ghost

Compare and Contrast

WOW! That’s cool!

• The money issues- it’s amazing to see the differences between a rich person and a poor person. The rich person is miserable and the poor person is happy.

• The dialect- It amazes me the words and ways they say things You really

think so?

Conflict

• Internal- Scrooge is fighting with his past present and future to see what’s wrong with him

• External- Scrooge is fighting with the ghosts, Marley, the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future

• If I was Scrooge I think I would’ve handled it just the way he did by finding out who I am and following the ghosts

Rewind! And try again!

Alternative EndingFive years later after Scrooge changed his act around, he passed away. People missed him, especially Tiny Tim. When Tiny Tim grew up, Scrooges will stated that his house was given to Tiny Tim. All of Scrooges money was distributed between his nephew and Tiny Tim. Tiny Tim used the money to get help with his leg and help his family out.

• http://www.google.com/imgres • http://projectbritain.com/festivals/• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens