What good description is found in Stave I? Besides the character sketch of Scrooge, there is a picture of Christmas Eve in the London streets, in the paragraph beginning "Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened". Stave II What is described in this chapter? The visit of the first spirit. What was it? The "Ghost of Christmas Past". Read me a description of it. "It was a strange figure ... like a child ... which it held under its arm". What does the spirit do? It forces Scrooge to accompany it and shows him former Christmas scenes in his life. What are these scenes? Scrooge as a solitary boy at school; his boyhood stories, _Ali Baba_ and _Robinson Crusoe_; his sister; Fezziwig's ball; Scrooge's sweetheart; scenes in her married life. What is the mood of these different scenes? There is humour, and a great deal of fun, as well as some pathos. It is all told in a lively style. What are the best descriptions? Fezziwig's ball, and the remembrance of the scenes in _Ali Baba_. Stave III What is told in this chapter? The visit of the second spirit. Who was it? The "Spirit of Christmas Present". What does it show Scrooge? Scenes of Christmas shopping; Christmas out-of-doors; the Grocers; Bob Cratchit's family, the goose, their dinner, the puddings; the miner's home; the lighthouse keepers; the sailors; Scrooge's nephew at home--blindman's bluff, forfeits, Yes and No; vision of "Ignorance" and "Want". What do all these scenes go to show? How different kinds of people keep Christmas; how kind and merry most people are at this season of the year: and how some have to struggle in order to get this one day's pleasure. Select some examples of humour. Peter's conceit, some of the descriptions of the grocery stores, the anticipations lest harm befall the goose and the pudding. Select any examples of pathos. The references to Tiny Tim. Select and read the best descriptions. The grocery stores, the fruit stores, the goose, the pudding. Stave IV What is told in this chapter? The visit of the third spirit. What was it? The "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come". What does it show Scrooge? A vision of his death--how he is plundered by laundress, charwoman, and undertaker; the phantom of Death; Scrooge's creditors; the grave. Had these scenes actually taken place? No, but they will be realized if Scrooge does not change his manner of thinking and living.