PowerPoint & 3 worksheets that examines the socio-economic backgrounds of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper: Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Kelly.
Activities include
-Starter activity to analyse what Booth’s survey tells us about Whitechapel in the 1880s.
- Discussion on what Annie Chapman’s photograph with her husband, the only one of the five victims who was seemingly pictured alive, tells us about the socio-economic status of the women as a group.
- Comprehension task in which students complete a table based on notes to identify whether the women had stable relationships with men, substance abuse problems, steady employment and access to accommodation.
- Causation activity in which pupils attempt to connect the socio-economic issues the women faced.
Designed for the teaching of Key Stage 3 History.
Lesson Length: 1hr depending on pace.
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Lots of detail about the victims' backgrounds and not too focused on the nature of their deaths.
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