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Charles Dickens: The Storyteller Who Changed the World

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Charles DICKENS was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England, into a family that was always teetering on the edge of POVERTY. His father, John Dickens, was terrible with money, and the family moved constantly trying to stay ahead of their DEBTS. When Charles was just twelve years old, his father was thrown into a debtors' prison — a real place where people were locked up simply for owing money. Young Charles was pulled out of school and sent to work in a FACTORY, pasting labels on shoe polish jars for ten hours a day. That dark, exhausting experience never left him, and it became the FUEL that fired nearly every story he would ever write.

Dickens was born in Portsmouth, _____.
ENGLAND
John Dickens was thrown into a debtors' prison because of the family's _____.
DEBTS
Name something the text tells us about young Charles Dickens's early life.
PULLED FROM SCHOOL / WORKED IN A FACTORY / FATHER WAS IN PRISON
Name something the text tells us Charles's early hardship became for his writing.
FUEL / FIRED HIS STORIES
Charles was pulled from school and sent to work in a factory at age _____.
12
Portsmouth, where Charles Dickens was born, is a major port city located in the _____ of England.
SOUTH/SOUTH COAST

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Write your thoughts on how a difficult childhood experience might shape the stories a writer chooses to tell.

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