The Importance of Tiny Tim revision lesson

A lesson designed to last one hour with mixed ability year 11 groups. The lesson’s objective is about symbolism and context but uses the character of Tiny Tim specifically to achieve the aims of the lesson.
Activities include: decpiher the symbols with extension task, who said quotations (all about or said by Tiny Tim). Choice of a question (mild, medium, hot) and theory (linked to context) for students to attempt/ write down. Main Activity is an extract from the text (Cratchit Christmas) with a question. Students (with some prompts/ teacher modelling) must plan out an essay plan for the question (Starting with this extract, what is the importance of the character of Tiny Tim?) Students will be prompted to invoke Scrooge quotes and discuss the two as literary foils.