A Christmas Carol
by: Charles Dickens
Student Name:
Double Entry Journal Directions: In the left column, there is a portion of the text or a quote from a
character in the novel. In the right column, begin your response by identifying the speaker and situation
in one sentence. Then, provide your thoughts, ideas, opinions, and/or reflections about the passage or
quote on the left. The page number is located in parenthesis.
Grading: The grading for this assignment is based upon your ability to demonstrate your knowledge of
the text as well clearly explaining your thoughts, ideas, reflections, and/or opinions for each section.
Scoring: 200 points
Stave I
1. External heat and cold had little influence
on Scrooge…It was the very thing that he
liked. To edge his way along the covered
paths of life, warning all human sympathy
to keep its distance (3).
2. “What reason do you have to be merry?
You’re poor enough” (5).
3. “You wish to remain anonymous?”
“I wish to remain alone…I can’t afford to
make idle people merry” (10).
4. To say that he was not startled or that his
blood was not conscious of a terrible
sensation to which it had been a stranger
from infancy, would be untrue” (15).
5. Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it
(16).
6. “If that spirit goes not forth in life, it is
condemned to so after death…I wear the
chain I forged in life” (21-22).
7. “Why did I walk through crowds of fellow
beings with eyes turned down, and never
raise them to that blessed star which led
the wise men to that poor abode?” (24).
Stave 2
8. Scrooge reverently disclaimed all
intention to offend or any knowledge of
having willfully bonneted the spirit at any
Student Response:
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period of life” (33).
A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is
left there still” (33).
“Yo ho, my boys…No more work
tonight…it’s Christmas Eve” (42).
“He has the power to render us happy or
unhappy”(46).
“May you be happy in the life you have
chosen” (49).
“His partner lies upon the point of death, I
hear, and there he sat alone. Quite alone
in the world I do believe?” (52).
Stave 3
14. “Tonight if you have aught to teach me,
let me profit by it” (59).
15. “Why to a poor one the most?
“Because it needs it the most” (63).
16. “I see a vacant seat…and a crutch without
an owner. If the shadows remain
unaltered, the child will die” (70-71).
17. “However, his offenses carry their own
punishments, and I have nothing to say
against him” (78).
18. “I mean to give him the same choice every
year, whether he likes it or not for I pity
him” (80).
19. “Are there no prisons? Are there no
workhouses?” (87).
Stave 4
20. “It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral”
(92).
21. “They’d have wasted it hadn’t it been for
me” (99).
22. “If there is any person here who feels
emotion caused by this man’s
death…show that person to me, Spirit, I
beesech you!” (102).
23. “Are these the shadows of the things that
will be or are they the shadows of the
things that may be?” (109).
24. “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain
ends to which, preserved in, they must
lead…But if the courses be departed from,
the ends will change. Say it is thus with
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what you show me!” (109-110).
Stave 5
25. “I will live in the past, present, and future”
(113).
26. “And therefore I am about to raise your
salary” (121).
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