Stave 5

Literary Devices: allusion, puns

Reading skills: assessing

predictions

Allusions

• A reference to a movie or book

– Ex. “Inconceivable!” “I do not think you

know what that word means.”

– “To be or not to be. . .”

– In this story, of Hamlet’s ghost in the

beginning.

Predictions

• You are familiar with this story, so

most of your predictions are correct.

–What about the ghosts, Scrooge, or the

other minor characters did you predict

that was correct?

– Incorrect?

Journal Questions

• At the beginning of Stave Five, Scrooge is happy

that the "time" before him is his own. Why is

“time” important to Scrooge? Explain and provide

at least 3 pieces of text evidence to support your

thoughts.

“Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his

own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all,

the Time before him was his own, to make amends

in” (Dickens 91). 

Journal Questions

 

• Explain the lesson that Scrooge learns from each

spirit. Include text evidence to support each lesson.

• How would you characterize Bob Cratchit’s attitude

toward Scrooge? Scrooge’s attitude toward

Cratchit? How do their attitudes toward each other

change throughout the book? Explain and include

at least 3 examples from the text.

Journal Questions

 

• How would you characterize Bob Cratchit’s

attitude toward Scrooge? Scrooge’s

attitude toward Cratchit? How do their

attitudes toward each other change

throughout the book? Explain and include

at least 3 examples from the text.

Journal Questions

 

• In literature as in life, characters go through

transformations and learn from their

experiences. Explain how Ebenezer Scrooge

transformed his life and learned from his

experiences. Provide at least 3 pieces of

supporting evidence from the novel.

Stave 5 Vocabularyp. 37 of ACC study guide

• Amends

• Dispelled

• Recompensed

• Blithe

• Unanimity

• Malady

• Illustrious

“Team Talk” Questions(p. 38 of ACC study guide)

• #1-Why is Scrooge overcome with

joy on Christmas morning?

• #2-What does Scrooge have sent to

Bob Cratchit’s home/

• #3-Why does Scrooge wish to catch

Bob Cratchit coming into work late?

“Team Talk” Questions(p. 39-40 of ACC study guide)

• #6-Why do you think everything Scrooge sees

on his walk gives him so much pleasure?

• #9-Scrooge’s neice an dnephew welcome him

with open arms. Read Rom. 12:13 and 1 Peter

4:9-10. According to these verses, what

qualities does true hospitality demonstrate? Do

Fred and his wife demonstrate these qualities?

Why or why not?

“Team Talk” Questions(p. 40 of ACC study guide)

• #10-Read 2 Cor. 5:17-19.

What makes truly new life

possible? In your opinion, how

well do these verses apply to

Ebenezer Scrooge?

Discuss:

• Life is a series of choices and consequences. Did

Scrooge actively or consciously choose to be the

way he was at the beginning of the novel?

• What types of decisions led him there?

• Did he truly have a choice in whether to change?

What consequences did his new choices result

in?

Plot Overview p. 42 in ACC study guide

Theme? Message?

• What do you think is the central or

dominant idea presented in the

novel?

Luke 19:1-10Zacchaeus the Tax Collector

19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name

of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who

Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran

ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.

5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come

down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and

welcomed him gladly.

7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a

sinner.”

8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half

of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will

pay back four times the amount.”

9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too,

is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

• In what ways does A Christmas Carol

echo this story from Scripture?