A Christmas Carol: Wide margin annotation edition (Annotation Editions)

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His greed is so extreme that he will not even spend the money to allow Cratchit to be warm in the office. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. Plus, we've included Knowledge Organiser pages, where all the key info is laid out in one handy place. Scholastic Annotation Editions come with extra-wide margins and double-spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations.

Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. Just want to add some ideas, then take a look at these annotated staves against yours and have a re-read of the staves. At closing time, Scrooge turns to Bob Cratchit and taunts him for wanting the day off for Christmas day. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Accessing a CGP Online Edition by using a code from a printed CGP book grants you access to the title for three years from the date of activation of the code.Purchasing a CGP Online Edition title grants you access to the title for three years from the date of purchase. Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker’s-book , went home to bed. Dickens sets up Cratchit and Scrooge as opposite figures, Cratchit symbolizing joy despite poverty and hardship and Scrooge symbolizing the grave-like sobriety of greed. They charged into the street with the shutters -- one, two, three -- had them up in their places -- four, five, six -- barred them and pinned then -- seven, eight, nine -- and came back before you could have got to twelve, panting like race-horses.

The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open. He feels that the sentiments of the season encourage people to make foolish financial decisions in the name of celebration. He implies that Scrooge has been forging his own 'chains' for the past seven years and suggests that his present actions are still determining the final weight and quantity of the shackles he will wear in death.

This Agreement and all matters arising from it are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes arising in connection with this Agreement and the place of performance of this Agreement is agreed by you. The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll’s frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free.

Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large. Cratchit, despite his poverty, celebrates Christmas with a childlike ritual of sliding down a hill with the street boys. ACC being set around Christmas then is a choice that Dickens has made to suggest that S is in the last stage of life. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there. He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten.

You have read and understand this Agreement and agree that it constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the Agreement between us with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement. No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge . Poulterers’ and grocers’ trades became a splendid joke; a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do.

There’s another fellow,’ muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: ` my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family , talking about a merry Christmas. Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give each other Merry Christmas , as they parted at cross-roads and bye-ways, for their several homes. It was a habit with Scrooge, whenever he became thoughtful, to put his hands in his breeches pockets .Scrooge knew this, by the smart sound its teeth made, when the jaws were brought together by the bandage. But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl -- you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain : or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow.