Lesson Planning
Learn about workhouses in Victorian London from Literary representations.
Teaching Objectives:
- To learn about life living in a Victorian workhouse.
- To find out about people and changes from a range of sources; understand about the Poorhouses and who went there.
- To explore a range of texts and websites to research workhouses and find out about the lives of poor Victorian children.
Children will:
- Understand what life was like living in a Victorian workhouse.
- Learn about some of the legal changes affecting children in the Victorian period.
- Understand about the lives of Victorian children.