Stave I - Marley’s Ghost
What do we learn from the opening of A Christmas Carol?
- Scrooge once had a business partner called Jacob Marley
- Marley died on Christmas Eve seven years before.
- Scrooge was Marley’s ‘only mourner’
Stave One - Marley’s Ghost - complete adapted text (illustrated pdf) * Audio Script/Text
Presentations for Stave One - free to access via OneDrive
- 1.1 Meet Scrooge * Presentation pdf (slides without notes)
- 1.2 Bob Cratchit & Fred Scrooge - the entry of two key characters.
- 1.3 Charity Collectors - Scrooge insists that Christmas is ‘chance to pick a man’s pocket’.
- 1.4 Shadows returning to his ‘gloomy’ home Scrooge finds strange things happening.
Activities/Worksheets
- Before Reading (Presentation)
- Stave One- Quick Check Worksheet * Presentation pdf (without notes)
* Stave Two * Stave Three * Stave Four * Stave Five