Charles dickens – celebrity author

Charles Dickens – celebrity author

This is a presentation that will help students learn lots of facts about Charles Dickens, his creative activity and Victorian age.

Charles Dickens would have been 200 years old this year!

Charles Dickens can be considered to be the first celebrity author in the world. He had become popular by the age of 25 and he was treated just like rock stars and movie stars are treated today. Everywhere he went, there were crowds of people cheering him, shaking his hand, and asking for his autograph. His fans in the US even cut bits of fur from his coat for souvenirs.

A great novelist, short story writer, journalist, he was also an editor - and a father of 10 children!

Today you will be researching online about Charles Dickens, his creative activity and Victorian England.Working in groups, you will follow the instructions on the process page answering the questions on the handout by following the links provided to the appropriate websites and pages. You will have two lessons for this task which is to be completed for home work.While researching the topic, you will have to look through the online material, that is given on the process page and then answer the questions in the test. The next step is to summarize the most important and interesting facts about the life of Charles Dickens and his novels and make presentations.

Let's get started!

To get some information about Charles Dickens's biography click the links below and read the texts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#Literary_style

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/index.html

Choose the correct answer in the test, that is linked below:

http://www.easytestmaker.com/user/Test.aspx?id=721BB8F4EA414C78A2FC20B9EA7FEC56&anch=SMK#I11

Lesson 1. " A note on Charles Dickens".

The links below will provide you with the information about England in the nineteenth century, the period when Charles Dickens's created his novels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/

This time you should match question with the correct dates:

http://www.easytestmaker.com/user/Test.aspx?id=2EE3F8DB1557413C923D3034E33AA69D&anch=SMK#I0

Lesson 2. "England in Dickens's time".

Read the texts in the links below and chose the correct answer:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/dickens/dickens_teachersguide.pdf

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/works.html

The test is linked below:

http://www.easytestmaker.com/user/Test.aspx?id=70C131CECCB0421D8C31ED1AB9DA47DF&anch=SMK#I9

Lesson 3. "Charles Dickens's creative activity".

It's time to sum up the information you have found, so let us listen to the groups'

reports.

Evaluation Rubric

I hope that you enjoyed the research you have done and enriched your knowledge with the facts from English History and English literature through this presentation and will be looking forward to reading his true to life short stories and novels.

This presentation will take two lessons. At the first lesson students have to search through online material to answer the questions and summarize the material for retelling. And at the second lesson students have to speak about Charles Dickens close to the facts from the test.