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- Form groups according to my guidelines and assume the roles I have given to each one of you (in case you forget what your role involves, read the document 'Cooperative Group Role Cards' below.
- Read the document 'Codeof conduct: Student Guidelines for Group Work' below, to learn what the rules of group work include.
- After you have visited the recommended websites that follow according to the timeline and deadlines (see the document below), answer the questions that follow right after them.
Charles Dickens: Background
- Who was Charles Dickens?
- When was he born and for how long did he live?
- What was his childhood like?
- What did his father do that influenced his childhood?
- What kind of jobs did he do?
- Did he have a happy marriage?
- Do you think his life was on the whole a happy one? Why/ why not?
Find a photograph or image that helps you illustrate your points.
The Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era:
- What was the Industrial Revolution?
- Who would enjoy the positive changes of the Industrial Revolution?
- What were the negative changes it brought?
Find a photograph or image that helps you illustrate your points.
- Families and households
- How big would the families used to be? What was the result?
- Did only men work in the Victorian times? Why/ why not?
Find aphotograph or image that helps you illustrate your points.
- Women�s work and Child labour
- What jobs were common for women in the Victorian era?
- What was life like for children? Talk about school, play and work.
Find a photograph or image that helps you illustrate your points.
- Crime
- Was there crime during the Victorian times?
- Who was usually thought to be responsible for crimes?
Find a photograph or image that helps you illustrate your points.
- Bankruptcy and Social security
- Did the government help the people in need?
- What would happen if somebody went bankrupt?
Find a photograph or image that helps you illustrate your points.
- Poverty and Workhouses
- What was a workhouse and who would end up there?
- What jobs would people do there and why?
- What would they earn for working there?
- Did Dickens know firsthand what it was like living in a workhouse?
- Why would children work in workhouses and under what conditions would they live there?
Find a photograph or image that helps you illustrate your points.
Dickens and Oliver Twist
Dickens, C.(2008) Oliver Twist (Level 4). Essex:Pearson Education Limited.
- What was Oliver�s birth and childhood like in the workhouse?
- Do you think it has any connection to Dickens' real life?
- How is being good and bad connected with being rich and poor in the novel/ movie?
- Is there any purity inside the bad characters? If so, what does Dickens try to show with that?
- What does the countryside versus the city represent?
- What point does Dickens try to make by describing the workhouse conditions?
Find a photograph or image that helps you illustrate your points.
3. Using the answers to your questions, the recommended sites and the pictures you have saved, create an infographic about how the Victorian era and Dickens' personal experiences influenced the writing of Oliver Twist. Watch the video 'How easel.ly infographics works' and read the document 'Infographics guidelines' below to help you.
Don't forget to include the sources you have used at the end of the infographic according to the document 'How to cite sources' below.
