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Victorian London at Christmas (Descriptive Writing) KS3 KS4
Subject: English
Age range: 11-14
Resource type: Lesson (complete)
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Students use the images and sentence starters to write a short piece of descriptive writing based on christmas/Victorian London.
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KidZone: Christmas Creative Writing Prompts
© Contributed by Leanne Guenther
Introduction:
These creative writing prompts are a fun Christmas activity. I like to introduce them towards the beginning of December to complete leading up to the holiday (if you're anything like us, the entire month is "Christmas focused"!).
Each worksheet provides a different inspiration to help spark a child's creative writing.
Printable Templates:
Word Wall Words: Print four Christmas word wall words and use one of the words in a sentence.
You can use my Christmas (Bible) word wall word templates to go with this activity or make your own.
Draw and Write: Write a story and draw a picture inspired by the writing prompt: "What is your favorite Christmas tradition?" You may wish to provide additional Lined Paper .
Informational Writing: First, Next, Then, Last
Use these words to create an informational writing short manual.
"How to wrap a Christmas present."
Writing Prompt 1: (creative writing questions)
"If the elves decided to get a Christmas gift for Santa Claus, how would they surprise him?"
Distribute the worksheet and encourage the children to create a few sentences based on the writing prompt provided.
Writing Prompt 2: (story sparks - third person creative writing)
"A little mouse watched as the strangers who arrived that night put their new baby in the manger. The mouse thought to herself…"
Distribute the story sparks worksheet and encourage the children to complete the story.
Writing Prompt 3: (story sparks - third person creative writing)
"On Christmas Eve, Jane and her brothers..."
Picture Sparks: Provide the children with the picture and a few sheets of lined paper. Encourage them to write a story based on the picture.
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6 of the best resources for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in KS3/4 English
Turn even the most Scrooge-like attitude to Dickens around with these excellent teaching ideas and activities
If you’ve not already studied A Christmas Carol with your class there’s still time before the end of term.
It’s short, and of course seasonal, and between Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the various ghosts there are plenty of talking points and writing activities to be had.
And at the very least it’s an excuse to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol in the next week.
1 | A Christmas Carol teaching guide
This self-contained guide to Charles Dickens’ festive tale supports work in Key Stages 3 and 4.
It’s absolutely massive, and contains background information on the text, ideas for writing exercises, studies of the characters and their settings and much more.
It’s the perfect place to start.
You’ll find it here.
2 | The origins of A Christmas Carol
For some excellent background material on the book, and how Dickens showcased Victorian attitudes towards poverty and work, head to the British Library.
The above video on its own is well worth watching, but you can also look at illustrations from first editions of the book, and read about the social consciousness strewn throughout the tale.
Find the video and everything else here.
3 | Teaching A Christmas Carol
Friend of Teachwire Alex Quigley has put together a great guide for how to teach this particular Dickens tale, given that students often find his language and style difficult to breach.
Check it out here.
4 | Form and function
This guide looks at how and why Dickens chose to write A Christmas Carol as a novella and as a ghost story.
It also looks at how he combined the oral storytelling tradition of ghost stories with a moral tale of redemption, and includes an analysis of the structure and language.
Click here to check it out.
5 | Victorian attitudes to Christmas
This interactive lesson plan uses the book, and Scrooge’s journey as a vehicle for looking at Victorian attitudes towards Christmas in more detail.
Head to the Guardian Teacher Network here, to find it.
6 | A letter to Scrooge
Most of your students probably don’t need much convincing that Christmas is great, but old Ebenezer Scrooge does.
This resource asks them to write down their ideas in a spider diagram, offers some persuasive words, phrases and techniques, then provides a basic template for them to articulate their thoughts and convince Scrooge to get into the festive spirit.
Download it here.
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