A Christmas Carol GCSE Literature Paper 1 Approaching an extract based question. What do you think is the first thing you’ll need to do when you are given a question alongside an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’? HOMEWORK – REVISE FOR LITERATURE PAPER 1! Show me evidence on Tuesday 5th Feb 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

A Christmas Carol GCSE Literature Paper 1 AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks) 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

Mark scheme descriptors: A Christmas Carol GCSE Literature Paper 1 Mark scheme descriptors: Band 4 – level 5 – clear understanding Band 5 – Level 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration Band 6 – level 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

Literature Paper 1 Approaching an extract based question. NOTES: GCSE Literature Paper 1 Approaching an extract based question. NOTES: Read the question and highlight the key words Read through the extract Read through the extract again, this time adding annotations – key words/techniques and IMPACT, context links – try to link to the question, link to other parts of text Answer in PEACEL paragraphs and weave context links throughout your answer Refer to the extract AND text as a whole THROUGHOUT your response! Recap PEACEL structure next lesson 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

You will take the same approach for your Shakespeare question! A Christmas Carol GCSE Literature Paper 1 Today we will plan a potential question you could be asked in the real exam. REMEMBER – YOUR FIRST PLANNING STEP WILL BE TO HIGHLIGHT/COVER THE TEXT IN ANNOTATIONS TO ANSWER THE QUESTION!!! It is vital you also remember to plan to talk about not only the extract, but the novella as a whole. You will take the same approach for your Shakespeare question! 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

What would we highlight? GCSE Literature Paper 1 Starting with this extract from Stave One, explain how you think Dickens presents Scrooge. Write about: • how Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract • how Dickens presents Scrooge in the novella as a whole. [30 marks] Mean Alone TIP: Create a box of synonyms/ linked words to character/ key word in question Miserable Tight Selfish REMEMBER, FOR THIS QUESTION YOU MUST REFER TO THE GIVEN EXTRACT AS WELL AS THE TEXT AS A WHOLE 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

Extract GCSE Literature Paper 1 Oh!  But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!  Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.  The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.  A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.  He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. Starting with this extract from Stave One, explain how you think Dickens presents Scrooge. Write about: • how Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract • how Dickens presents Scrooge in the novella as a whole. [30 marks] REMEMBER, FOR THIS QUESTION YOU MUST REFER TO THE GIVEN EXTRACT AS WELL AS THE TEXT AS A WHOLE 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

Extract GCSE Literature Paper 1 Oh!  But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!  Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.  The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.  A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.  He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. Starting with this extract from Stave One, explain how you think Dickens presents Scrooge. Write about: • how Dickens presents Scrooge in this speech • how Dickens presents Scrooge in the play as a whole. [30 marks] YOUR FIRST PLANNING STEP WILL BE TO HIGHLIGHT/COVER THE TEXT IN ANNOTATIONS TO ANSWER THE QUESTION!!! *Note* for the extract questions you can add your paragraph plan around your annotations rather than writing out separately!! REMEMBER, FOR THIS QUESTION YOU MUST REFER TO THE GIVEN EXTRACT AS WELL AS THE TEXT AS A WHOLE 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

QUOTES, TECHNIQUES, KEY WORDS, IMPACT, CONTEXT Annotating together – what can we pick out? QUOTES, TECHNIQUES, KEY WORDS, IMPACT, CONTEXT Starting with this extract from Stave One, explain how you think Dickens presents Scrooge. Write about: • how Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract • how Dickens presents Scrooge in the novella as a whole. [30 marks] Oh!  But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!  Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.  The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.  A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.  He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. Selfish even though rich – imagery, forcing workers suffering/ struggling under his management – links to Bob and TT’s illness  “I see a vacant seat” – foreshadows death if Scrooge doesn’t support Bob – emotive for reader REMEMBER, FOR THIS QUESTION YOU MUST REFER TO THE GIVEN EXTRACT AS WELL AS THE TEXT AS A WHOLE 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration What points could we make about the presentation of Scrooge in the play as a whole?

Annotating together – what would we focus on? GCSE Literature Paper 1 Starting with this extract from Stave One, explain how you think Dickens presents Scrooge. Write about: • how Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract • how Dickens presents Scrooge in the novella as a whole. [30 marks] Oh!  But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!  Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.  The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.  A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.  He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. Selfish even though rich – imagery, forcing workers suffering/ struggling under his management – links to Bob and TT’s illness  “I see a vacant seat” – foreshadows death if Scrooge doesn’t support Bob – emotive for reader P1 Once we have annotated our extract and added links to the novel as a whole, we then add our numbers (for paragraphs) to order our response 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

Now it’s your turn – plan to respond! GCSE Literature Paper 1 Starting with this extract from Stave One, explain how you think Dickens presents the supernatural within the novella. Write about: • how Dickens presents the supernatural in this extract • how Dickens presents the supernatural in the novella as a whole. [30 marks] At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.  But how much greater was his horror, when the phantom taking off the bandage round its head, as if it were too warm to wear indoors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast! Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face. "Mercy!" he said.  "Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?" "Man of the worldly mind!" replied the Ghost, "do you believe in me or not?" "I do," said Scrooge.  "I must.  But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?" "It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.  It is doomed to wander through the world -- oh, woe is me! -- and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!" Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands. "You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling.  "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.  Is its pattern strange to you?" Highlight question, add synonyms Read extract Read again, add annotations – remember links to whole text! 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration

Can we come up with our own questions and extracts? GCSE Literature Paper 1 Tues 22nd May How does Dickens present…? This could be a character or theme! Write about: how Dickens presents _______ in this extract how Dickens presents ________ throughout the novella [30 marks] Set a question for another person on your table – follow the structure of the example question and give them page/line numbers for the extract (no more than half a page long). REMEMBER, FOR THIS QUESTION YOU MUST REFER TO THE GIVEN EXTRACT AS WELL AS THE TEXT AS A WHOLE 5 – clear understanding 6/7 – thoughtful, developed consideration 8/9 – Convincing, critical analysis and exploration