Year 7 Homework due 29th November

Which of these is an example of social inequality in Victorian London?

• Poor people did not have the same educational opportunities as rich children

• Both poor and rich people died of diseases such as cholera

Characterisation is ...

• What a writer makes a character like

• What a writer makes the weather like

• What a writer makes the structure like

• What a writer makes a setting like

Poverty is ...

• The state of being extremely poor

• Being able to go on holiday and buy whatever you want

• Having enough money or possessions

• Someone's opinion or point of view

If someone is malicious, they...

• do or say things to deliberately hurt or upset someone

• can be easily harmed

• use their power in an illegal way

Corrupt describes someone who uses their power in a dishonest or illegal way in order to make life better for themselves. ​

• True

• False

The Artful Dodger is characterised as...

• strange

• happy

• malicious

• vulnerable

Oliver Twist is what type of story?

• Social commentary

• Thriller

• Autobiography

• Romance

Writing about issues in a society is social commentary.

• True

• False

Dickens wrote social commentaries because...

• he was concerned about the treatment of the Victorian poor

• he was poor

• his father went to prison

• he grew up in a workhouse

Workhouses were designed to be so severe that no one would want to seek help from them unless they were desperate.

• True

• False