Oliver Twist Study Guide
Study Guide for Oliver Twist
This extensive study guide workbook covers comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar & enrichment ideas related to Oliver Twist for 11th-12th graders. As students read, they complete worksheets, writing topics, hands-on activities and field trips.
The study guide is broken down into weekly units in which students read a section of the novel and answers comprehension questions pertaining to those chapters. Each unit contains a variety of critical thinking activities including projects, drawing, writing assignments, and a puzzles which correlate to chapters in the novel. Writing assignments apply concepts in the story to the student's life and many passages are chosen to emphasize Biblical lessons that relate to the story.
Total Language Plus study guides are designed to take about 8 to 10 weeks to complete. Depending on the number of activities students perform and the degree of emphasis placed on composition skills, this study guide may serve as your complete Language Arts curriculum.
Barbara's Notes: Of all Dickens's book, Oliver Twist is most relevant for today's world. It is an early work expressing his outrage against the treatment of the poor. (Grades 11, 12)
About the book: Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Orphaned at birth, Oliver finds himself a naive youth in London's seedy slums with depraved villains as associates. Will his basic good nature overcome their influence or is he destined to swing from the gallows with them?
Book Summary — 419 pages
Book Category — Classic
Theme — Outrage against poverty
Setting — London, 1800s
Novel Study Highlights — 6 units
Spelling-Vocabulary — Medium
Critical Thinking — Difficult
Biblical Focus — Love thy neighbor
Related Studies — Poverty, homelessness, social responsibilities, crime
Focus — Writing devices including caricature, exaggeration, foreshadowing, hyperbole, irony, personification, sarcasm, satire, and understatement; setting tone; plots and subplots
