We will complete a research project that results in an informative Power Point.
Choose from the following topics:
1. Charles Dickens
2. Child Labor During The Victorian Era,
3. Poor-Laws
4. Victorian Christmas Traditions
Research project Rubric:
uChoose your topic. Get the project rubric for your topic.
uEach project will need to have at least three content slides, not including your Title Slide and Works Cited slide covering the topics listed on their reference page. (5 slides minimum)
uYour rubric includes information on how to cite the websites that you use in your PowerPoint. All websites used must be listed in your PowerPoint on a Works Cited page. This is your last page.
uYou must have at least one source pulled from Gale in Context through TEL (Tennessee Electronic Library).
uInclude relevant pictures on each slide of your PowerPoint to help us understand.
uYour last informational slide should answer the Big Question on your paper.
uSend me your Power Point through my email. I will ask several of you to present your projects.
Victorian Children
1. Go to the "Links" page of my website and read the text about Victiorian Children.
2. Make a T-Chart for "Wealthy" and "Poor" Victorian children based on what you have read. Please put this in your binder.
3. Next, read the "Jack" Transcript. Jack is a poor child living during the Industrial Revolution. He must work for a living to survive. Answer the questions that follow the transcript.
4. After you have answered the questions about Jack, create a journal entry. Pretend that you are either a poor or wealthy child from the Victorian Era. Write about what you are experiencing as a result of your socio-economic status.
"Jack" Transcript
My name is Jack. I live with my older sister and her family in a tiny place in Camden. Our parents both died of Tuberculosis when I was 7. It was terrible-I would hear them coughing and coughing all night long, and then in the end they got so weak they died. My sister told me they'd be happy in heaven and we'd see them again in the afterlife. After they died there wasn't enough money for us all to live on, and there was hardly any food for us all. I had to go out to work as a chimney sweep. The work was horrible. I had to squeeze my way up dirty chimney pots to try and clear them. Sometimes it was so dark and dirty in the chimney that I wasn't able to breathe. The soot and dirt would get all over my clothes and in my hair and mouth. Whatever I would eat would taste of soot! My boss wasn't good to me either. If I didn't work fast enough or hard enough he'd whack me. I did that job for ages, but last year my sister got me a better job. Now I work as a message boy. I carry messages all over London. Some days you have to fight your way through all the crowds of people on the roads. In the winter the roads are muddy and you get covered in dirt. In the summer the smell coming from the river and horse manure on the streets is terrible. Sometimes I see the rich people queuing up to go to the theaters and eat in nice restaurants. I can't afford any of that!
Answer the following questions in your binder:
1. What do you learn about Jack's family? How does this impact his life? Provide Evidence to support your answer.
2. Why does Jack have to work at age 7? How would his life differ from a wealthy Victorian child's life? Provide evidence from the Jack's transcript and the text you read about Victorian children.
3. What job's does he do and what are they like? Why does this lifestyle provide danger and obstacles for Jack?
How They Croaked-Charles Dickens
Go to the Links page of my website and find the text.
1.Take a sheet of paper and divide it into 6 blocks.
2.Block 1: Three-character Traits of Charles Dickens and evidence to support those traits.
3.Block 2: How did the time period of Dicken’s life affect his writing? Provide evidence.
4.Block 3: Describe 3 conflict that Dicken’s faced in his life. How did these conflict impact his future?
5.Block 4: What was the most interesting fact that you learned about Dickens and why?
6.Block 5: What is a question you still have about Dickens after reading this text?
7.Compare and contrast Dicken’s life to Poe’s life.
