Child Labour Poverty Dickens Blacking Factory "Christmas Carol" Comparison Analysis Writing

This is an editable powerpoint which focuses on some of the skills needed for AQA English Language. It was planned to go alongside “A Christmas Carol” to help with contextual knowledge and understanding.

I refer to it as a lesson here - it was planned to go across a double lesson but depending on how you want to run the writing, it could be extended longer.

The lesson begins with a focus on Victorian Christmas cards and a reminder to the students to vary their sentence openers - with an opportunity to practise this. The focus then changes to some pre-twentieth century non fiction describing children and women at work. There is an opportunity to polish and embed the reading skills of analysis and comparison. The powerpoint ends with an analysis task - a model is provided.