I really enjoyed today's exercise of annotating and analyzing the images and text within Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.  Starting off the lecture with some context about how Christmas was celebrated in the 1840's allowed me to understand the text better. While reading through and annotating the chapter assigned to my group, it was interesting to find certain lines that would not make sense in today's context or words that we maybe no longer use. This allowed me to further compare this 1843 text to more modern renditions I am familiar with which was interesting especially with the illustrations included within the original novella. Another thing I enjoyed was the analysis of the illustrations by John Leech, not only did we learn about how the image relates to the text and brings it to life but also the context of what these images meant in the context of the 1840's.