Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE Annotated Edition

This educational edition in Methuen Drama’s Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series:

– meets the new requirements at Ks3 and Gcse (2010)
– features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and
language analysis
– places pupils’ understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities
– will help pupils to boost English Gcse success and develop high-level skills at Ks3
– will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

Dickens’ tale of cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge has delighted generations of readers. This edition of the National Curriculum recommended author’s work provides an engaging, active approach to studying the Literary Heritage and developing a range of reading, writing and speaking skills. Combining Mortimer’s acclaimed adaptation with expertly written activities, this is the perfect edition for classroom use.