Name: Teacher: HAVEN SANDOVAL PRICE ELA 7 TH GRADE (Q2) Week 7: Nov 30-Dec. 4, 2020 MONDAY A CHRISTMAS CAROL: ACT I (text) • Read the Text – Annotate • Comprehension Check TUESDAY CONCEPT VOCABULARY/WORD STUDY • Vocabulary worksheets WEDNESDAY ANALYZE CRAFT & STRUCTURE • Text Structure: Dialogue in Drama THURSDAY CONVENTIONS • Subject-Verb Agreement FRIDAY SELECTION TEST • Complete the test and turn in your packet to the school/bus When you complete the packet, you may return it with any of the following options: • Scan each page and send it to your teacher’s email address. • Drop off the packet at the TMS front office. • Return it to the bus driver on the following Monday and pick up a new packet. Any questions? Email your teacher or call TMS at 928-729-6811. Mrs. Haven [email protected]Ms. Price [email protected]Ms. Sandoval [email protected]
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Name: Teacher: HAVEN SANDOVAL PRICE
ELA 7TH GRADE (Q2) Week 7: Nov 30-Dec. 4, 2020
MONDAY A CHRISTMAS CAROL: ACT I (text)
• Read the Text – Annotate
• Comprehension Check
TUESDAY CONCEPT VOCABULARY/WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary worksheets
WEDNESDAY ANALYZE CRAFT & STRUCTURE
• Text Structure: Dialogue in Drama
THURSDAY CONVENTIONS
• Subject-Verb Agreement
FRIDAY SELECTION TEST
• Complete the test and turn in your packet to the school/bus
When you complete the packet, you may return it
with any of the following options:
• Scan each page and send it to your teacher’s email address.
• Drop off the packet at the TMS front office.
• Return it to the bus driver on the following Monday and pick up a new packet.
Any questions? Email your teacher or call TMS at 928-729-6811.
This version of the selection alternates original text with summarized passages. Dotted lines appear next to the summarized passages.
ANCHOR TEXT | DRAMA
Israel Horovitzadapted from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act I
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Jacob Marley, a specterEbenezer Scrooge, not yet dead, which is to
say still aliveBob Cratchit, Scrooge’s clerkFred, Scrooge’s nephewThin Do-GooderPortly Do-GooderSpecters (Various), carrying money-boxesThe Ghost of Christmas PastFour Jocund TravelersA Band of SingersA Band of DancersLittle Boy ScroogeYoung Man ScroogeFan, Scrooge’s little sisterThe SchoolmasterSchoolmatesFezziwig, a fine and fair employerDick, young Scrooge’s co-workerYoung ScroogeA FiddlerMore DancersScrooge’s Lost Love
Scrooge’s Lost Love’s DaughterScrooge’s Lost Love’s HusbandThe Ghost of Christmas PresentSome BakersMrs. Cratchit, Bob Cratchit’s wifeBelinda Cratchit, a daughterMartha Cratchit, another daughterPeter Cratchit, a sonTiny Tim Cratchit, another sonScrooge’s Niece, Fred’s wifeThe Ghost of Christmas Future,
a mute PhantomThree Men of BusinessDrunks, Scoundrels, Women of the StreetsA CharwomanMrs. DilberJoe, an old secondhand goods dealerA Corpse, very like ScroogeAn Indebted FamilyAdam, a young boyA PoultererA GentlewomanSome More Men of Business
The action in these scenes takes place on Christmas Eve, 1843, in Ebenezer Scrooge’s offices in London.
Scene 1[Ghostly music in auditorium. A single spot lighton Jacob Marley, D.C. He is ancient; awful, deadeyed. He speaks straight out to auditorium.]
Marley. [Cackle-voiced] My name is Jacob Marley and I am dead. [He laughs.] Oh, no, there’s no doubt that I am dead. The register of my burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker ... and by my chief mourner ... Ebenezer Scrooge ... [Pause; remembers] I am dead as a doornail.
Jacob Marley introduces Scrooge and says that Scrooge is a greedy old man. The audience sees Scrooge sitting in his office counting money. Scrooge cannot see Marley.
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NOTESMarley tells the audience that he and Scrooge were business partners for many years. When Marley died, Scrooge was too stingy to remove Marley’s name from the sign on their office. Scrooge has no friends. But he likes it that way.
Marley tells the audience that it must watch to see what will happen to Scrooge. It’s a bitterly cold night.
Then Marley disappears.
Scene 2This scene opens to the sound of Christmas music. Scrooge is sitting at his desk. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, is working in a cold and dark corner. Cratchit tries to warm himself. Scrooge’s nephew enters, unseen.
Scrooge. What are you doing, Cratchit? Acting cold, are you? Next, you’ll be asking to replenish your coal from my coal-box, won’t you? Well, save your breath, Cratchit! Unless you’re prepared to find employ elsewhere!
Nephew. [Cheerfully; surprising Scrooge] A merry Christmas to you, Uncle! God save you!
Scrooge. Bah!1 Humbug!2
Nephew. Christmas a “humbug,” Uncle? I’m sure you don’t mean that.
Scrooge. I do! Merry Christmas? What right do you have to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough!
Nephew. Come, then. What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.
Scrooge. Bah! Humbug!
Nephew. Don’t be cross, Uncle.
Scrooge. What else can I be? Eh? When I live in a world of fools such as this? Merry Christmas? What’s Christmastime to you but a time of paying bills without any money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer. If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!
Nephew. Uncle!
Scrooge. Nephew! You keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.
Nephew. Keep it! But you don’t keep it, Uncle.
Scrooge. Let me leave it alone, then. Much good it has ever done you!
1. Bah! (bah) interj. word meant to show disgust or scorn for something.2. Humbug! (HUHM buhg) interj. nonsense!
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NOTESScrooge’s nephew says that Christmas is the time when people open their hearts to each other. He invites Scrooge to eat with his family on Christmas. But Scrooge rudely refuses. He criticizes his nephew and Cratchit for having wives and children to support. After arguing, the nephew leaves.
Two kind men enter the office. They ask Scrooge to give a donation for the poor and needy. Scrooge tells the men that the prisons and workhouses are for the poor and needy. Both men are shocked at Scrooge’s cold heart. Scrooge asks them to leave him alone and rudely returns to his desk. Cratchit walks the men to the door and gives them a small amount of money as a donation.
After the men leave, the clock strikes six. Cratchit prepares to go home.
Scrooge. Hmmm. Oh, you’ll be wanting the whole day tomorrow, I suppose?
Cratchit. If quite convenient, sir.
Scrooge. It’s not convenient, and it’s not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you’d think yourself ill-used, I’ll be bound?3
[Cratchet smiles faintly.]Cratchit. I don’t know, sir ...
Scrooge. And yet, you don’t think me ill-used when I pay a day’s wages for no work ...
Cratchit. It’s only but once a year ...
Scrooge. A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every 25th of December! But suppose you must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier the next morning!
Cratchit. Oh, I will, sir, I will. I promise you. And, sir ...
Scrooge. Don’t say it, Cratchit.
Cratchit. But let me wish you a ...
Scrooge. Don’t say it, Cratchit. I warn you ...
Cratchit leaves, saying “Merry Christmas” as he goes. A boy outside sings “Away in a Manger.” Scrooge sends the boy away. He grumbles as he turns off the lights. What follows is Scrooge’s crossover back to his rooms.
[Scrooge will walk alone to his rooms from his offices. As he makes a long slow cross of the stage, the scenery should change. Christmas music will be heard, various people will cross by Scrooge, often smiling happily. There will be occasional pleasant greetings tossed at him.Scrooge, in contrast to all, will grump and mumble. He will snap at passing boys, as might a horrid old hound. ...This statement of Scrooge’s character, by contrast to all other characters, should seem comical to the audience.]
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NOTESAs Scrooge walks along, snow begins to fall. People on the street look up at the snow and smile. By contrast, Scrooge is angry at the snowflakes and bats at them. He comments on the blackness of the night.
Scene 3Scrooge arrives home. As he unlocks his door, the door knocker changes into Marley’s face. Scrooge is startled. Then, the face disappears. When Scrooge gets inside, he goes through the house looking to see if anyone is there. The pictures on the walls show Marley’s face. All the bells in the house begin to ring. Scrooge hears a loud chain dragging across his basement floor and up the stairs. He hears doors fly open. He refuses to believe these things are happening.
[Marley’s Ghost enters the room. He is horrible to look at: pigtail, vest, suit as usual, but he drags an enormous chain now, to which is fastened cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses fashioned of steel. He is transparent. Marley stands opposite the stricken Scrooge.] ...
Scrooge. Who are you?
Marley. Ask me who I was.
Scrooge. Who were you then?
Marley. In life, I was your business partner: Jacob Marley.
Scrooge. I see ... can you sit down?
Marley. I can.
Scrooge. Do it then.
Marley. I shall. [Marley sits opposite Scrooge, in the chair across the table, at the front of the fireplace.] You don’t believe in me.
Scrooge. I don’t.
Marley screams a ghostly scream and removes his head from his shoulders. This convinces Scrooge that he is real. Marley says that he continues to walk the earth as a ghost because he did not care for other people during his life. He is forced to carry the chain because he cared too much about business and money. Scrooge is frightened that a chain will appear around his body, but Marley cannot comfort him. However, he warns Scrooge that he has a chance to save himself. He tells him he will be haunted by Three Spirits. They are Scrooge’s only hope. If he does not listen to the spirits, he will end up like Marley. After Marley leaves, Scrooge wonders if he imagined the whole thing.
Scene 4Marley appears to the audience. He tells them that they are going to witness a change in Scrooge. A bell rings and Scrooge is awakened from his sleep. He sees a hand drawing back the curtains. A figure stands in front of Scrooge. It looks like both a child and an old man. It is the Spirit called Past.
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NOTESScrooge. Who, and what are you?
Past. I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Scrooge. Long past?
Past. Your past.
Scrooge. May I ask, please, sir, what business you have here with me?
Past. Your welfare.4
Scrooge. Not to sound ungrateful, sir, and really, please do understand that I am plenty obliged for your concern, but, really, kind spirit, it would have done all the better for my welfare to have been left alone altogether, to have slept peacefully through this night.
Past. Your reclamation, then. Take heed!
Scrooge. My what?
Past. [Motioning to Scrooge and taking his arm] Rise! Fly with me! [He leads Scrooge to the window.]
Scrooge. [Panicked] Fly, but I am a mortal and cannot fly!
Past. [Pointing to his heart] Bear but a touch of my hand here and you shall be upheld in more than this!
[Scrooge touches the spirit’s heart and the lights dissolve into sparkly flickers. Lovely crystals of music are heard. The scene dissolves into another. Christmas music again]
Scene 5[Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past walk together across an open stage. In the background, we see a field that is open; covered by a soft, downy snow: a country road.]Scrooge. Good Heaven! I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!
The Ghost of Christmas Past notices that Scrooge is crying. Four men pass by singing a Christmas carol. Scrooge remembers the beauty of the song. The ghost is surprised that Scrooge has happy memories of Christmas.
Then, they see a boy weeping in a schoolhouse. It is young Scrooge, all alone. The real Scrooge sobs and says the little boy was so lonely. He thinks of the young caroler whom he shooed away from his office earlier that night. He says he wishes he had given him something. The ghost smiles and takes Scrooge to another past Christmas.
This time, Scrooge is twelve. He is at the school where he lives with a harsh teacher. His six-year-old sister, Fan, comes to take him home for Christmas. The real Scrooge
4. Your welfare (WEL fer) n. someone’s health, comfort, and happiness.
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NOTESsays he loved his little sister very much. In real life, she is dead. But she had one child, Scrooge’s nephew.
Next, the ghost and Scrooge go to a warehouse where Scrooge worked as a young man. He sees his former boss and co-workers. They are dancing and playing music on Christmas Eve. The younger Scrooge and his friends talk fondly of their boss. The real Scrooge regrets that he hasn’t been kinder to his own employee, Bob Cratchit.
[In a flash of light, Ebenezer is gone, and in his place stands an Older Scrooge, this one a man in the prime of his life. Beside him stands a young woman in a mourning dress. She is crying. She speaks to the man, with hostility]Woman. It matters little ... to you, very little. Another idol has displaced me.
Man. What idol has displaced you?
Woman. A golden one.
Man. This is an even-handed dealing of the world. There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
Woman. You fear the world too much. Have I not seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you? Have I not?
Scrooge. No!
Man. What then? Even if I have grown so much wiser, what then? Have I changed towards you?
Woman. No ...
Man. Am I?
Woman. Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so. You are changed. When it was made, you were another man.
Man. I was not another man: I was a boy.
Woman. Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are. I am. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart is fraught with misery now that we are two ...
Scrooge. No!
Woman. How often and how keenly have I thought of this, I will not say. It is enough that I have thought of it, and can release you ...
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NOTESMan. Have I ever sought release?
Woman. In words. No. Never.
Man. In what then?
Woman. In a changed nature; in an altered spirit. In everything that made my love of any worth or value in your sight. If this has never been between us, tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now? Ah, no!
The woman leaves the man, telling him to be happy in the life he has chosen. The real Scrooge cries out as she leaves. He begs the spirit to take him away. In a flash of light, the spirit is gone and Scrooge is back in his bedroom. Marley appears again to tell the audience that Scrooge must sleep. Scrooge still has to meet Christmas Present and Christmas Future.