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**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Four Ghosts of //A Christmas Carol// __** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Directions //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Use the quotes below the ghost’s name as a starting point for your picture. Be sure to incorporate the ghost’s actions, the notable scenes with the ghost, and Scrooge’s reaction to the ghost into your picture.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. **Jacob Marley:** “The chain he drew was clasped about his middle…” 2. **Ghost of Christmas Past:** “It was a strange figure—like a child, yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium.” 3. **Ghost of Christmas Present:**“Its dark-brown curls were long and free, free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its constrained demeanor, and its joyful air.” 4. **Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come:** “It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand.”

**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Open Mind Diagram for Ebenezer Scrooge __** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Directions //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Fill in the open-mind diagram below with objects, images, symbols and quotations from //A Christmas Carol// to provide a picture of what is going on in Scrooge’s mind before the visit by Marley and after the visit from the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.