Task One: The Life of Charles Dickens and Workhouses
A. Click on the link to answer the following: http://www.arlde.com/dickens.htm
Read the article about Charles Dickens and his childhood.
1. Summarize how Dickens' life changed when he was 12 years old.
2. Make an inference - how did Dickens' childhood affect his writings?
B. Click on the link to answer the following: charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html
Click on Camden Town (Map A-3).
3. What family from "A Christmas Carol" lived there?
4. Make an inference - why might Dickens have chosen that location?
Click on Warren's Blacking Factory (Map E-6).
5. What is a 'blacking factory'?
6. What job did the 12 year old Charles Dickens do there?
7. How did this job affect his relationship with his mother?
C. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.harrison-associates.co.uk/prescot/workhouses.html
8. What happened to people who could not pay their bills?
9. Why were the conditions in the workhouses harsh?
D. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/poor/workingclass.html
Important! Scroll down to 'workhouses'
Click on the image of the poster responding to the 'new' Poor Law.
10. Based on the poster, what were some problems people faced if they lived in a workhouse?
11. Provide evidence for how assigned work was the same for criminals and paupers (very poor people). Make an inference - why was the work the same?
Click on the document 'Cases and Deaths by Cholera.' (Third image, right above 'Casual Labor')
12. How old were most of the people that died?
13. What can you infer about the living conditions in the workhouses?
A. Click on the link to answer the following: http://www.arlde.com/dickens.htm
Read the article about Charles Dickens and his childhood.
1. Summarize how Dickens' life changed when he was 12 years old.
2. Make an inference - how did Dickens' childhood affect his writings?
B. Click on the link to answer the following: charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html
Click on Camden Town (Map A-3).
3. What family from "A Christmas Carol" lived there?
4. Make an inference - why might Dickens have chosen that location?
Click on Warren's Blacking Factory (Map E-6).
5. What is a 'blacking factory'?
6. What job did the 12 year old Charles Dickens do there?
7. How did this job affect his relationship with his mother?
C. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.harrison-associates.co.uk/prescot/workhouses.html
8. What happened to people who could not pay their bills?
9. Why were the conditions in the workhouses harsh?
D. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/poor/workingclass.html
Important! Scroll down to 'workhouses'
Click on the image of the poster responding to the 'new' Poor Law.
10. Based on the poster, what were some problems people faced if they lived in a workhouse?
11. Provide evidence for how assigned work was the same for criminals and paupers (very poor people). Make an inference - why was the work the same?
Click on the document 'Cases and Deaths by Cholera.' (Third image, right above 'Casual Labor')
12. How old were most of the people that died?
13. What can you infer about the living conditions in the workhouses?