A+Christmas+Carol



=LESSON PLANS=

[|Party Lesson Plan] -Link to a lesson that is set up into three parts. The first part has student researching how characters from the Victorian age would've dressed, acted and what they would have been talking about. The second part would include students picking characters from the novel which they would want to represent. The final step would be getting students into groups and allowing them to set up a 5-10 minute scene to perform in front of the class that would tie everything they have learned together. [|Lesson Plans/Handouts] -This website has numerous amounts of material on it. There are examples of vocabulary lists from the book, test examples, worksheets and even ideas for projects that you could introduce to your class for this lesson.

[|Three Great Lesson Plans] -This article was written by Debra Karr in 2009. It simply lists the instructions for three great lesson plans that could be used while teaching this novel.

=RANDOMS=

[|Quotes] -This link has a list of several quotes from the book. Students can choose one quote, and for their assignment they can tell how the quote was applied in the text and why the quote was important. I think this would be beneficial because a lot of times quotes like these are from important parts in a novel and it's imperative that they understand exactly what they character is trying to say.

[|Book In A Minute] -I thought this was funny, it literally reduces the book down to a minute (four lines) and can actually get the majority of the story out as well. I would use this to have students condense the novel into a short little play that could be performed in class.

[|Christmas Carols] -This is an idea I thought of. The link will take students to a list of popular Christmas Carols. I want the students to pick one from the list and listen to it. After listening to the song, I would ask the students to write a page paper briefly describing the type of play they would put on that would be derived from the lyrics of the song. What kind of setting would there be, characters, plot etc?

[|Power Points] -This site gave me the idea that I could use while teaching this novel. I love the idea of power points and I think students do too. I could have students before even reading the text create small (5-10) slides of what Christmas means to them and present them to the class. After we finish reading the novel they would re-do the assignment for how they feel now about the meaning of Christmas.

[|Entire Text Online] - This website provides the entire text online for students and teacher use. A lot of times students forget their books or get lost, but if you want to teach a certain passage or paragraph this would be a great site to pull up in the classroom and have the entire class view it together. =HANDOUTS/ACTIVITIES=

[|Great Resource For Novel, Vocabulary, Background Inofrmation, Etc.] -This website is a very large database for several things a teacher could use for this novel. There are multiple handouts, lesson plans, word searches, etc. I liked it because it is easy to navigate, and students could also use this as a reference when reading the novel.

[|Quick & Easy Quiz] -This quick quiz is an easy "warm-up" before a test that you could have your students go to and take. I like it because there is a link at the bottom that gives students the correct answers. This way they can totally do this on their own and it's a good way to study.

[|Character Guide] -This site is a guide that will allow the students to get a feeling for who the characters in the novel will be before even opening the book. You could pass this out to make s ure nobody gets lost while reading.

[|Themes] -This link has a variety of themes from which the novel could be read. There are ideas and explanations from which students can view the book. They outline the reasons for which they are looking at the book this way, and examples that justify their view points.

[|Health Class Project] -This site doesn't have a whole whole lot to do with the novel. However, it poses the question what we would change with our lives if we were given the opportunity to see into our future. I think you could come up with a great project either for a health class or even just a small paper that would be almost a free-write for students.

[|Comprehensive Questions For A Christmas Carol] - This site displays a sample list of questions students can answer while reading the text. This website also provides various other links to the actual text as well. There is a link to historical information about Charles Dickens, along with countless of other activities a teacher could use in his/her classroom. =VIDEOS=

[|Trailer For New Movie] -This is a trailer for the newest movie that has been made by Disney for A Christmas Carol. You can show this and talk about the advancements that have been made in the movie industry and the whole "3-D" phase this country seems to be going through. You could have a project for your students to create and shoot their own trailer for this novel.

[|Older Video] -This is a link to the beginning of the older movie version of A Christmas Carol. The student could take a look at this in comparison to how they felt like the characters in the novel were pictured in their minds. You could also use this as a film comparison to the newer version that just came out in theaters.

[|Audio Playing Of Text] -This site is merely a website that audio reads the text to you bit by bit. I think this would be a great alternative to help students with possible IEP's who have trouble reading. They could sit at home or in class and listen to someone else reading it to them.

=BACKGROUND/AUTHOR NOTES= [|Charles Dickens] -This website provides a background for the author of this novel. I think it would be good for the students to read up on Dickens before reading the novel. A lot of times we pick up a book and read it without even thinking about the author. Who the author is influences the book being written.

[|Fun Facts] -This is a link to some facts and trivia about Charles Dickens & A Christmas Carol.

[|Interactive Text] -This site displays pages from the original text that Dickens actually wrote. Students are able to zoom in and see if there are changes in the novel that Dickens didn't intend to have in his version. There are prompts given with each page that students can try and figure out.