Year 8
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will look at how Dickens was a social critic. In our reading, Oliver is selected for a risky task - he must ask for more gruel from the workhouse master. We will then analyse what social problems Dickens is critiquing through this scene.
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5 Questions
Q1.
Which of the following options are characteristics of a novel?
A novel is a true story.
A novel is watched by an audience in a theatre.
Q2.
What group of people does Oliver appear before in this extract?
His family
The police
Q3.
Who takes Oliver to this meeting?
A policeman
His mother
The parish surgeon
Q4.
What does one of the workhouse board members call Oliver?
A lovely boy
A pitiful boy
An obedient boy
Q5.
What does the word 'vulnerable' mean?
Someone or something that harms others.
Someone or something that is small.
Someone or something that is young.
5 Questions
Q1.
Where is Oliver during this lesson's extract?
In his house
Prison
Q2.
Oliver asks for more _____
Pizza
Sausages
Q3.
What prediction does the workhouse board member make about Oliver?
He will become a moral gentleman.
He will make many friends
Q4.
What is a social critic?
A person who is very negative
A person who is very social
Someone who criticises books
Q5.
What social problems does Dickens criticise throughout his novel? (tick all that apply)
The laziness of poor people
The selfishness of the poor