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Week 13 - Comprehension

30/11/2014

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A Christmas Carol

Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker’s-book, went home to bed.  He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner.  They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.  It was old enough now, and dreary enough, for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices.  They yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands. The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.

What does Melancholy mean?

Why does Dickens repeat it?

What line shows personification of the weather?

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Week 12 - What kind of character is Fagin?

23/11/2014

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Fagin extract (Oliver Twist)

It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den. … It seemed just the night when it befitted such a being as the Jew to be abroad. As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

What do the underlined words/phrases tell you about the character Fagin?

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Week 11 - Charles Dickens

16/11/2014

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Fagin – taken from ‘Oliver Twist’

“…that Fagin sat watching in his old lair, with face so distorted and pale, and eyes so red and bloodshot, that he looked less like a man, than like some hideous phantom, moist from the grave, and worried by an evil spirit.

He sat crouching over a cold hearth, wrapped in an old torn coverlet, with his face turned towards a wasting candle that stood upon a table by his side. His right hand was raised to his lips, and as, absorbed in thought, he bit his long black nails, he disclosed among his toothless gums a few such fangs as should have been a dog's or rat's. “

Which quotations make Fagin sound like:

  • An animal
  • A ghost
  • An evil being
  • Miserable
  • Cold
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Week 9-10 Create a Booklet about Charles Dickens

2/11/2014

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Use the information you gathered over half term to create an exciting booklet all about Charles Dickens. This should be aimed at a target audience of year 6-7's.

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