Stave 4

Literary devices: juxtaposition

Reading skills: personal

connection

Vocab: synonym

• 1. Synonyms help students know a

word more completely

(visualthesaurus)

• 2. Based on these sentences, what

do you predict will happen in this

chapter?

As you read

• Pause: check comprehension every page

• Predict: at each change in scene, predict what

will happen

• Connect: note how you have felt in similar

circumstances

• Review, retell, re-read: if you’re lost, skim the

page again, see if you can retell what

happened, re-read it if you must. THEN go on.

Infer

• The businessmen:

–What does this scene tell us about

Scrooge?

–What kind of people care about his

death?

Answering questions

• Use one or two specific examples from the

story.

• Restate the question in your answer (this

makes you focus on the question).

• Answer all parts of the question in a

sentence that makes sense all on its own.

Use direct quotations

• Copy the words from the book

exactly as written. Use “.” Commas

& periods always INSIDE.

• #2, 9, 11

Ex. What changes in Scrooge are evident in the way Scrooge addresses the last spirit?

• Scrooge’s changes are predictable because he

acts differently. For the first time in the story,

he is not arrogant, but pleading. He tells the

Spirit, “’Good Spirit,’ he pursued, as down

upon the ground he fell before it: ‘Your

nature intercedes for me, and pities

me…’” He not only begs for help, but

actually lays his body down to show his

sincerity.

“Team Talk” Questions

• These questions are located in your

study guide starting on p. 34

#1

“Team Talk” Questions

• These questions are located in your

study guide starting on p. 34

#3

“Team Talk” Questions

• These questions are located in your

study guide starting on p. 34

#4

“Team Talk” Questions

• These questions are located in your

study guide starting on p. 34

#5

“Team Talk” Questions

• These questions are located in your

study guide starting on p. 34

#7

“Team Talk” Questions

• These questions are located in your

study guide starting on p. 34

#8

Compare/Contrast• Note your own feelings regarding people

you know who have died. Compare this to

how people feel when Scrooge has died.

Contrast the two.

• You understand the deaths in this chapter

better because the responses to them are

so different. Compare & contrast the

reactions to Tim’s and Scrooge’s deaths.

Reactions to the deaths of Scrooge vs. Tiny Tim

“Team Talk” Questions• These questions are located in your study guide

#12Take a look at…

• 1Corinthians 15

• 1 Peter 1:3-9

Journal Question

• There is a saying, “Time waits for no

one.” How does this final spirit

personify or embody this saying?

How does this saying relate to

Scrooge? Explain and include at least

3 pieces of text evidence for support.