The Victorian Era has many lessons to offer. Almost everyone is familiar with the internal conflict in this story, the blackened heart of the old miser Ebenezer Scrooge. Fewer recall the external conflict, one that existed in the real world, and still exists today. The Victorian Era was a time and place of unparalleled splendor, beauty and extreme wealth. It was also a time and place of child labor, overflowing orphanages, unsafe working conditions, extreme poverty, debtors prisons and union workhouses. The moral lessons of Victorian England are still relevant and much-needed today, and masterfully presented in the many works of Charles Dickens. Students will use creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration to produce a play based on Charles Dickens' timeless classic A Christmas Carol.
