LIVING IN 1900
LIVING IN c1900 Year 9 History Assessment.
Autumn.
Describe and compare the lives of men, women and children at the end of the Victorian age.
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Hints to help you
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A good way to present this assessment would be to use social class as the skeleton
INTRODUCTION. Your first paragraph will mention the class system – upper, middle and working class. How can we tell the differences between the classes? •
You can then write paragraphs about how the upper class live
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You can then write paragraphs about the middle classes
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Finally, you can write about the working classes
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In each of these paragraphs you can compare and contrast lifestyles. For example, you can write about how your job or profession defines your class or whether you need to work at all. You can then write about the different types of home the classes have, whether they have servants or where in the city or town they live.
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To bring the topic more alive, you could include more information on some of the following: Education, shopping, diet, leisure, religion and transport.
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Finally, don’t forget that enormous changes were starting to take place with the rights of women. What were the really big issues some women were campaigning about in 1900?
Remember the 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not copy and paste”
Don’t forget to use information and pictures from the Black Country Museum.
To reach a higher level you need to: 1. Show evidence of independent research. 2. Explain how the lives of women were beginning to improve by 1900. e.g. changes in the law. 3. Explain the differences within each class eg. Skilled and unskilled working class. 2
Homes.
Transport.
Work.
Shopping. Diet.
Women.
UPPER CLASS
Children.
Leisure. 3
Education.
Transport. Homes. Work.
Leisure.
MIDDLE CLASS Education.
Upper and Lower Middle Class
Diet. Women. Shopping. Children.
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Transport.
Homes. Work.
WORKING CLASS Skilled, semi skilled and unskilled. Leisure.
Shopping. Diet.
Education. Women.
Children.
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For many women life was still very hard BUT some things were beginning to change. NEW LAWS eg.1870 Women were allowed to keep money they earned
EDUCATION. By 1900 more girls were going to school
JOBS available to women before 1900. Mills and factories. Domestic servants. Shop assistants. Seamstresses. Teachers.
WOMEN
NEW LEISURE OPPORTUNITIES eg. Cycling and tennis
How far were their lives beginning to change?
NEW OPPORTUNITIES such as women typists, telephonists and doctors.
NEW LABOUR SAVING DEVICES such as gas cookers and lights.
Women were demanding the right to VOTE. Suffragists. Suffragettes.
Annie Besant and other women had fought for better pay for women
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Autumn.
Describe and compare the lives of men, women and children at the end of the Victorian age.
1
Hints to help you
•
A good way to present this assessment would be to use social class as the skeleton
INTRODUCTION. Your first paragraph will mention the class system – upper, middle and working class. How can we tell the differences between the classes? •
You can then write paragraphs about how the upper class live
•
You can then write paragraphs about the middle classes
•
Finally, you can write about the working classes
•
In each of these paragraphs you can compare and contrast lifestyles. For example, you can write about how your job or profession defines your class or whether you need to work at all. You can then write about the different types of home the classes have, whether they have servants or where in the city or town they live.
•
To bring the topic more alive, you could include more information on some of the following: Education, shopping, diet, leisure, religion and transport.
•
Finally, don’t forget that enormous changes were starting to take place with the rights of women. What were the really big issues some women were campaigning about in 1900?
Remember the 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not copy and paste”
Don’t forget to use information and pictures from the Black Country Museum.
To reach a higher level you need to: 1. Show evidence of independent research. 2. Explain how the lives of women were beginning to improve by 1900. e.g. changes in the law. 3. Explain the differences within each class eg. Skilled and unskilled working class. 2
Homes.
Transport.
Work.
Shopping. Diet.
Women.
UPPER CLASS
Children.
Leisure. 3
Education.
Transport. Homes. Work.
Leisure.
MIDDLE CLASS Education.
Upper and Lower Middle Class
Diet. Women. Shopping. Children.
4
Transport.
Homes. Work.
WORKING CLASS Skilled, semi skilled and unskilled. Leisure.
Shopping. Diet.
Education. Women.
Children.
5
For many women life was still very hard BUT some things were beginning to change. NEW LAWS eg.1870 Women were allowed to keep money they earned
EDUCATION. By 1900 more girls were going to school
JOBS available to women before 1900. Mills and factories. Domestic servants. Shop assistants. Seamstresses. Teachers.
WOMEN
NEW LEISURE OPPORTUNITIES eg. Cycling and tennis
How far were their lives beginning to change?
NEW OPPORTUNITIES such as women typists, telephonists and doctors.
NEW LABOUR SAVING DEVICES such as gas cookers and lights.
Women were demanding the right to VOTE. Suffragists. Suffragettes.
Annie Besant and other women had fought for better pay for women
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