We’re excited to share our newest free lesson plans, created to accompany The Haunting of Ebenezer Scrooge—a bold, atmospheric reimagining of a classic story that leans into fear, memory, and moral reckoning.
This adaptation reframes Dickens’s familiar tale as something darker and more urgent. Rather than focusing on sentimentality, the play asks students to grapple with accountability: how personal choices ripple outward, how suffering becomes invisible, and whether change driven by fear can ever be genuine.
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What’s Inside the Free Lesson Plans?
Designed for flexible use in ELA, theatre, and humanities classrooms, these lesson plans support close reading, ethical discussion, and creative interpretation. Highlights include:
👻 Pre- and Post-Reading Questions
Prompts that center guilt, responsibility, fear, and the meaning of being “haunted.”
🧍 Character Analysis Activities
Deep dives into Scrooge, the ghosts, and the people affected by indifference—focusing on consequence, not caricature.
🏭 Victorian Context & Social Responsibility
Mini-research projects exploring poverty, charity, workhouses, and why ghost stories functioned as moral warnings.
🎨 Creative Activities Across Modalities
Soundscapes, visual art, poetry, and production design projects that help students engage with atmosphere and symbolism.
📚 Text Connections & Assessment Options
Thoughtful comparisons to literature, plays, and films, plus assessments ranging from analytical essays to design-based projects.
Bring The Haunting of Ebenezer Scrooge into Your Classroom
Whether you’re teaching a holiday unit, exploring morality through drama, or studying adaptations of classic texts, this play offers students a powerful lens on fear, responsibility, and change. Download the free lesson plans and invite students to ask the hardest question the play poses: What does it take to truly change—and who pays the price when we don’t?