V6B - P3 - Week 5

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V6B - P3 - Week 5

Today's Lesson

Literary History: The Victorian Period

Student's Choice

Make groups of 4
One of you needs to sign in with your group name and lists who is in the group below

Literature Lesson - The Victorian Period

During the Victorian Age the British empire was called:
“The Empire where the sun never sets"
Explain why and submit your answer as a group

The British Empire

• England grew to become the greatest nation on earth
  
• Imperialism = territorial expansion, colonies abroad
  
• Empire included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, Kenya, and India
  
• England built a very large navy and merchant fleet (for trade and colonization)
  

Research the following topics in the Victorian age
1. women's rights 2. worker's rights
3. child labour 4. non-British citizens
Submit your answer as a group

Reader Page 13: Task 8a
What can you say about the tone of the fragment?
Post your answer as a group

What can you say about the tone of the fragment?

Critical of life in England and how people treat foreigners

Reader Page 13: Task 8b
Submit Dickens's comments on foreigners
Post your answers as a group

Comments on foreigners

• Foreigners: uphill work (hard work), every foreigner had a knife, ought to go home to their own country, God’s will that they are not English, foreigners country didn’t do as well as England

Reader Page 13: Task 8b
Submit Dickens's comments on Englishmen.
Post your answers as a group

Comments on Englishmen. 

• Englishmen: God made them English (good thing), England does not experience bad times because it makes good decisions
  

What do you know about Darwinism
and its effect on Victorian life?
Submit your answer as a group

Literature Lesson - The Victorian Period

Student's choice

You have several options for the rest of this lesson:

- Study the PPT on the Victorian Age

- Study other Literary History PPTs. 

- Study literary history reader

- Practise your reading skills on www.examenflow.nl 

What are you going to work on this lesson?

What is your goal this lesson?
(what do you want to achieve)

What did you accomplish this lesson?
(Be specific please.)

Finished!

You have finished today's lesson. 

You learned more about literary history

 and

you have prepared for your final tests. 

Well done!