This activity examines an excerpt from near the end of Stave 4 of the novella "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Whether an assessment/analysis for the end of stave 4 or a stand alone analysis (You do not have to have read the book) for students, this activity allows the student to analyze the text closely for tone, figurative language, word choice, summarization, word meaning, theme, author's purpose, citing text evidence, making predictions, plot analysis, suspense, inference, and drawing