Haili Hughes

GCSE Literature Boost: A Christmas Carol

Using Critical Theory at GCSE

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

GCSE Literature Boost: A Christmas Carol uses academic criticism and theory to relight your literary passion for this classic text and put a newfound excitement in your pedagogy. Each chapter considers a main theme or section of Dickensâ A Christmas Carol through different critical lenses.

Produktdetails

• GCSE Literature Boost
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 174mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781032591957
• ISBN-10: 1032591951
• Artikelnr.: 69791957

Autorenporträt

Haili Hughes is an academic at the University of Sunderland, Director of Education at IRIS Connect and was an English teacher for sixteen years. She has written five education books, speaks all over the world and advises the DfE.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. A whistlestop tour of some different theoretical lenses
3. Some theoretical lenses and 'A Christmas Carol' 4. What might a critical
theory journey through the English Literature curriculum look like? 5. Case
Studies 6. The forgotten ghost - the importance of Marley 7. Religious
ideology and Dante in A Christmas Carol 8. Scrooge and the parallels
between the Book of Job 9. Ebenezer misunderstood? 10. Authorial craft:
Dickens the master of his craft 11. "God bless us, every one!" An
exploration of the Cratchit family 12. It's all in the name 13. Food
glorious food! Feast and famine in A Christmas Carol 14. Suffer the Little
Children: the depictions of children in A Christmas Carol 15. It's the most
wonderful time of the year