A Christmas Carol Introductory Slides and Activities

These 20+ slides will help introduce your students to Charles Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol. This is the perfect introduction to your unit plan and makes a great first lesson plan for the novel. The slides cover the following topics:

• Who is Charles Dickens (featuring pictures from his house in London)
• The Industrial Revolution
• Debtor's prisons
• Child labor
• Victorian education
• Dickens' inspiration for the novel
• Christmas in Victorian England
• The novel's title
• The preface
• Staves/chapters
• Narrative voice
• Symbols and motifs
• And more!

The slides feature primary source documents, personal pictures from Dickens' House in London and The Morgan Library in NYC, and discussion questions.

Both PowerPoint and PDF files are included. The PowerPoint is not editable, but there is a blank slide with the background design for you to add additional material if needed for your classes.

Want more holiday activities? These task cards are a great way to test your students' knowledge of figurative language while getting into the holiday spirit.

Holiday Figurative Language Task Cards: Christmas Activity, Bell-Ringers

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