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A Christmas Carol – Belle’s Family

(19-slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 3 worksheets)

This engaging GCSE English Literature lesson focuses on Dickens’ presentation of Belle’s family in Stave Two of A Christmas Carol, while also encouraging learners to reflect on how Scrooge has changed over the course of the stave. The lesson includes a 19-slide fully editable PowerPoint and three accompanying worksheets.

Resource highlights:

• A differentiated Do Now task to recap and revise key ideas from Stave Two

• Close reading of the extract beginning “No more!” cried Scrooge through to “…he sank into a heavy sleep”

• Analysis of:

  • How Belle’s and Scrooge’s lives contrast

  • How Dickens presents Belle’s family

  • How Scrooge reacts to this ‘shadow’ of what might have been

• Reflection on the lessons Scrooge learns in Stave Two, linking characters, quotations, and themes

• Two differentiated activity pathways to suit mixed-ability groups

• A plenary learning review task, asking learners to summarise how Scrooge has changed from the beginning to the end of Stave Two

Perfect for classroom teaching, exam preparation, or revision, this lesson develops students’ analytical skills and supports a deeper understanding of Dickens’ characterisation and themes in A Christmas Carol.

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