Pentonville Prison - Crime & Punishment - GCSE Edexcel History - Lesson 20

This lesson examines the features, purpose and building of Pentonville Prison. It looks at the use of the separate and silent system as well as the use of punishments and reflection in the prison.

**Resource 1: **
A4 Power Point Worksheet - Would Fry and Howard have agreed with Pentonville Prison? Students decide which factors about Pentonville Prison Reformers such as Fry and Howard would have agreed with or not.

Resource 2: Lesson Power Point
Slide 1: Title Slide - Case Study - Pentonville Prison
Slide 2: Recap Task - What is the difference between prisons in c.1700s to prisons in c.1800? Illustrations and key terms to provide ideas.
Slide 3: A map showing the location of Pentonville Prison in London
Slide 4: Starter Task - What do the four illustrations teach you about Pentonville Prison?
Slide 5-10: Backgrounf information about the aims of Pentonville Prison and the reasons it was built.
Slide 11: Would Fry and Howard have approved of Pentonville Prison? This slide goes along with the other worksheet which comes with the lesson.
Slide 12: A worksheet for students to make notes on about Pentonville Prison.
Slide 13: Higher level challenge questions
Slide 14: An alternative question sheet about Pentonville Prison
Slide 15-17: A worksheet which allows students to examine how to structure a PEE paragraph (point, evidencem explain).
Slide 18: An example answer for a 12 mark question.
Slide 19: Lesson Fact Sheet

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