ADAPTING
THE RESOURCES
ADDITIONAL
RESOURCES
Teachers wishing to concentrate on the literacy aspects
of the activities might find it useful to collect some examples of historical
fiction and examples of how historians can use empathy in their writing to
create a 'feel' for their chosen period.
For teachers wishing to develop more complex ICT tasks, we have included two
databases of census data from 1861 to 1891 which could be investigated to
produce lists e.g. of occupations, or comparative information e.g. on average
size of family.
We have included some graphics such a newspaper masthead and copies of early
20th century adverts which pupils could load into MS Word to present their
work in the form of a newspaper.
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KS2 pupils might use the photograph of the street and ask the question 'What
happened next?' as the starting point for a story.
They could use the 'Then and Now' activity to compare the street in 1900 with
what it looks like now.
The Word document 'My Characters' could be adapted to make a labelled diagram
of the words used for articles of clothing in Victorian times e.g. 'pinafore'
or 'hob nailed boots' etc.
KS3 pupils might like to use parts of the units as exercises for historical
enquiry activities to examine and evaluate the information obtained from such
sources as photographs, maps and census returns.
The support materials have been created in Microsoft Word format to enable
you to modify them to suit your pupils and to enable them to create their
own documents. The 'My Characters' document could be modified to create a
story board, for instance.
More advanced students might try using the resources to write using different
genres, e.g. plays, film scripts, diaries or news paper articles.
ABOUT
THIS UNIT
The
web site activities have been designed as a unit but you may wish to use each
activity separately. The intention was to produce resources which pupils could
use to collect a variety of source materials to help them write a story set
in a street in Alnwick in 1900. Through using the resources pupils can become
familiar with the layout of the street, know which shops they would find there
and discover who lived there. They will also use observational skills to collect
details about the street to help them imagine what it would be like to walk
down the street in 1900. Finally they can use information from the 1891 census
to choose characters for their story and give them names of people who actually
lived in the street.
Then
and Now
Two photographs of
the same area of Bondgate Within in 1900 and 2000
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Families
Census information
for 5 families living in the area in 1891.
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Maps
Maps of Alnwick for 1865 and 1890
and two maps for labelling with shop names.
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Shops
1900
Photographs of shops
and businesses occupying the site around 1900.
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Shops
2000
Photographs of the
shops and businesses occupying the site in 2000.
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My
Characters
Selections from
the picture of the street in 1900 showing each person separately.
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Householders
1891
An extract from the
1891 census showing the names of the householders for each house on the north
side of Bondgate Within with their age and occupation.
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Census
Two MS Access databases
with census data for each house on the north side of Bondgate Within for 1851,
1861, 1871 and 1891.
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Newspapers
Masthead graphic for the Alnwick and County Gazette.
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A selection of adverts from
1906.
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1911.
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1925.
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Other
Resources
A list of Carriers
leaving Alnwick with destinations.
Recollections of growing up in a village near Alnwick in the early 20th century.
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download a resource first create a folder on your hard drive. When you click
the button you will be asked whether you wish to view the file or save it to
disk. If you choose save to disk you can use browse to find your folder and
the files will be installed there as self extracting zip files. Click on each
file, use browse to select your folder again and click Unzip.
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