Description
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL A Christmas Carol Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 6-week novel study — prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, writing, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (511+ pages, slides, & forms for all your print and digital teaching needs). Perfect for British Literature.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Your learners will have fun with the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson plan journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This literature guide includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of fun activities.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns the lesson plan to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.
This world today works really hard to get us thinking about ourselves. It’s gets us so focused on our needs and wants for today that we lose track the grand picture of our lives. It’s gets us thinking that if we take care of we and ours then everything will be just dandy. Humbug to the rest!
That is what makes A Christmas Carol so timeless. Scrooge’s journey toward seeing the world around him and all its needs is a journey our students could use as much as we could. The 3 ghosts have messages for our culture today to think about and discuss. Like we said … timeless.
To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your activities in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added easy-grade Google Forms versions of each activity that auto-corrects their responses using a suggested answer key (which you can adjust afterward or modify your answer key) and compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (some types of questions aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).
TEXT: A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens
LEVEL: 7th – 9th
TOTAL: 392+ combined slides/pages/forms in novel study unit
→ Based off the Scholastic Edition [ISBN: 9780439101332]. Uses act/scene/line instead of page #.
→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
→ Pacing Guide and Suggested Answer Keys included
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WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS NOVEL STUDY RESOURCE
♥ I started by using the freebies and then realized that I “needed” all of it! Very comprehensive yet easy to use. I wish I had the time to use this resource in its entirety. I found several resources that I am eager to try out this year. I believe that they will fall in love with this text through the use of this resource. Good stuff!
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♥ Thank you for creating a great resource that I can use with my 7th and 8th graders. Created for Learning is the first place I stop before purchasing a new novel study unit. This is the third bundle I have purchased from you and am so happy to use the study units with my classes. There is an abundance of useful products in each unit. I even use them with my SPED kids. Thanks again for creating a wonderful product.
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♥ This was a fantastic purchase and was appropriate for my 7th grade students. It has everything I needed in one package!
♥ Great for my 8th graders! The curriculum map is helpful and takes the stress out of planning!!!
♥ I used this before Christmas for my 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. There is plenty suitable for each level; the basics in plot, character, and setting were perfect for the 6th graders, and my 8th graders were challenged by the figurative language sections. This unit was a great purchase, and I look forward to using it again! I also appreciated the visual impact of the plans; the coordinating graphics gave a fun and festive mood.
♥ I want to mention that it’s great for a variety of levels — it’s always tough teaching multiple grade levels and these types of products make it much easier. Thank you!
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL – NOVEL STUDY CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit book study
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate the lesson plan for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get learners thinking about the novel
– 11-page/slide activity + 14-slide slideshow
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc Activity
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 1-page + 8-slide analyzer (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict Activity
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 2-page + 5-slide analyzer (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Characters Analyzer Activity
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 5-page analyzer + 5-slide analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Symbols Analyzer Activity
– analyze the 6 different symbols in the story
– 5-page analyzer + 8-slide analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Chains Activity & Discussion
– class discussion instructions to analyze Marley’s chains & create our own chains
– 1-page activity + 1-slide activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
★ Your Ghosts Activity
– imagine their own three Ghosts and which scenes those ghosts would create for them
– 1-page activity + 1-slide activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide slideshow will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ Figurative Language Activity
– analyze the 55 different quotes specific to the story
– 6-page + 12-slide analyzer (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Journal Questions – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 33-writing prompt slideshow + 33-writing prompt digital slideshow
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ 12 Comprehension Questions Pop Quizzes
– a 5 comprehension question pop quiz per few chapters
– 22-page/slide + 22-Google slides
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and students who didn’t read recently would not show comprehension.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2,10
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 90 vocabulary words from the novel
– three 30-question lists & quizzes
– 12-page + 25-slide bundle includes list of words & quizzes (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ Essay Writing and Speech
– 3 response to literature essay options for learners to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 6-page + 11-slide bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL.1,4,6
★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison Activity
– 2-page activity + 2-slide activity
– compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy! And God Bless Us, Every One!!!
