This is a minimum of 2 whole lessons (of one hour), beginning with Sir Robert Peel. Students are given two slides of information about the first police force then quizzed. This is followed by a look at the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, with some deduction tasks and a literacy correction exercise. Then on to hulk ships and writing a diary entry of someone on board serving a prison sentence for stealing onions. Links to clips re-enacting children sentenced to transportation for pickpocketing. Then, complete the outline using description of Magwitch’s character (escaped convict in Great Expectations), and some language analysis using an extract from this story. The final task uses information given in an extract from Oliver Twist to create a wanted poster for Artful Doder.
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KS3 VICTORIAN CONTEXT ENGLISH USING NOVEL EXTRACTS
Approximately 8 lessons using well known novel extracts, along with contextual information, to study characters, marriage, social class, education and crime & punishment in the setting of the victorian period. Authors include Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen & Arthur Conan-Doyle.
VICTORIAN CONTEXT FOR KS3 ENGLISH LITERATURE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES
Around 6 lessons in total, this series of resources covers Victorian education, crime, punishment and the law, as well as looking at three of Dickens' most memorable characters in the context of the time. Range of activites from quizzes to cloze exercises, education clips, wanted poster, diary of a hulk ship prisoner, drama amongst other tasks.
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