Assignment task: Stave 3B A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Q1. After the GCPresent ushers ES away from the Cratchit Christmas, they three sites en route to Fred's house. Where/Who/ What is occurring at each of these three stops?
Q2. What is the initial conversation and action seen/heard by Ebenezer at his nephew's? How is Ebenezer responding to these experiences?
Q3. What are some of the Christmas games? How are Topper and Fred's wife's sisters involved?
Q4. What impact does music have? What significance could music have had in Scrooge's life? Why does Fred want to impact his uncle?
Q5. Diction: What are the humorous word choices of Dickens' narrator as he covers the game of blind man's buff? What are other variants and names of this game?
Q6. What are the several stops of GCP and ES after departing Fred's house? What Christmas effects are witnessed?
Q7. What is happening to the Ghost of Christmas Present? What is the explanation for this change?
Q8. Who does GCP reveal to ES? What is the warning? How is this short scene parallel to Ebenezer's question about whether TT will live?
Q9. What time is it? Name and describe the final supernatural character sent to ES. What does GCYTC say?
Q10. Why does Scrooge follow GCYTC? Contrast how each Christmas Spirit transports Ebenezer through space and time.
Q11. What is the exchange at the Exchange? Identify the speakers and their tone. Who is Old Scratch? ES is gathering clues to solve what riddle?
Q12. Grammar: Record a longer sentence from today's reading and indicate its subject(s) and verb(s) that work together by identifying clauses-- and whether the overall sentence is complex (contains a subordinate/dependent clause).
Q13. View the thirteen minutes from :59to 1:12 of the 1984 George C. Scott film. Choose and cite a particular minute upon which to make substantive commentary (then make your first Canvas submission for today):