Millstone Education:
World Literature

Two children reading books

This Literature Unit Is:

"A Christmas Carol"
by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens


Introduction

A truly classic Christmas tale by the author of A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Bleak House. Movies and plays have been based upon this story of a character whose name is now synonymous with greed, selfishness and redemption: Scrooge.

Edition I Use: Children's Christmas Stories and Poems
Dover Children's Thrift Classics
ISBN #: 0-486-28656-8 / $1.00 / Buy this edition at Amazon.com
The full text is available on-line here.

Unit Sections:

Mr. Draeger's Adventure: Becoming Scrooge Additional Reading
Discussion Questions Author Quotes
Fact Questions Vocabulary
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