Second Industrial Revolution Lesson 4: Oliver Twist
Learning goals: Students can understand conditions children were in during the Industrial Revolution. Students can read an extract from Oliver Twist and answer questions about it. Students can create a flyer about Oliver Twist and use the vocabulary of the lesson. Assignment 1 Watch the clip on the right. Then in pairs discuss these questions: - Would you eat your food if a maggot was in it? - Why did Oliver Twist still eat his gruel? - Why do all the children look so surprised when Oliver Twist stands up?
Assignment 2 Visit this website and read the extract from Oliver Twist.
Assignment 3 After reading the extract students answer these questions: 1.What is gruel? 2.What do you think the sentence ‘’the bowls never wanted washing’’ means? 3.‘’At last they got so voracious and wild with hunger’’. What does voracious mean in this sentence, you think? 4.What is ‘’one porringer’’? 5.Why does Oliver Twist ask for more gruel? 6.Why was it odd to ask for more gruel? 7.‘’That boy will be hung.’’ Do you think that Oliver Twist will really be hung for this? 8.What was decided of Oliver Twist’s fate the next morning?
Assignment 4 - Match the words on the right to the correct meaning.
Assignment 5 Looking
back on the lesson about children’s conditions and what you read about Oliver
Twist, you know a lot about how children suffered during that time. Visit this website. - You will create a flyer/newsletter about Oliver Twist. Based on what you just read you have to disagree with the way Oliver Twist is treated in the workhouse. - You will need to create a summary of what just happened to Oliver Twist. - The summary needs to be 50 words, using 5 words of the previous assignment. - You will need to make your flyer interesting and colorful. - Your aim is wanting to save Oliver Twist from the horrible conditions he and other children are in. - In your flyer you also may use some of the cons of the lesson about children's conditions (lesson 1, changes during Industrial Revolution) to make your flyer even more convincing.