A Christmas Carol: Wide margin annotation edition (Annotation Editions)

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Oysters are hard to open - suggest Scrooge does not like opening up to people and keeps to himself, antisocial.

These are absolutely fabulous resources for teachers who want to save time making their own personal annotations. Owl Eyes is an improved reading and annotating experience for classrooms, book clubs, and literature lovers. Scrooge muttered, with an unusual catching in his voice, that it was a pimple; and begged the Ghost to lead him where he would . And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

One aspect of the novella’s enduring popularity lies in its message of redemption, the joy of giving, and the possibility of change. It was old enough now, and dreary enough, for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlour, and by one stair at a time, up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided. If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley’s head on every one. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle , who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step .His colour changed though, when, without a pause, it came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room before his eyes. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye , which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall . The Grammar Police Promotions Test is back – and it’s worth 25 house points for those of you who score full marks! Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols and newer customs such as Christmas trees.

When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark , that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin.

They were portly gentlemen , pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge’s office.

In a changed nature; in an altered spirit; in another atmosphere of life; another Hope as its great end. In the main street at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture. It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson.Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant’s cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own.