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Find out more about Charles Dickens
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| Background | Dare you take a tour of Dickensian London? You could meet Mr Micawber, Mr Pickwick or Fagin. Or you might catch smallpox and end up in jail. If you do well, you'll get to meet Charles Dickens. |
| Task | Just play the game! It's fun! |
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BBC Game- Survive Dickens' London |
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| Task | Work out a way of displaying this information. If you use a spread sheet or a database you could find out the maximum, minimum and means of the ages for each individual family etc. |
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| Background | On this section of the BBC site Andrew Xavier, who is curator of the Dickens House Museum answers some questions about Dickens. |
| Task | Dickens often used his novels as a means of reporting on the poor conditions at the time. Find out which one Andrew feels had the most influence in changing Victorian attitudes. |
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BBC Web Site |
| Background | Nettlesworth Primary School web site provides a list of 'Some Important People of Victorian Times' with brief descriptions. |
| Task | Read through the list then copy and paste the information about all the writers. Choose one of these to find out more about them. |
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Nettlesworth Primary School web site - 'Some Important People of Victorian Times'. |
| Background | This site has been created by Mark Telford when he was at Primary School. During 1998 his project was based on the Victorian Age and Mark chose to concentrate on 4 famous Victorians from 4 different walks of life but who all made a significant impact on the world around them. One of them was Charles Dickens, |
| Task | Learn from his site and evaluate it. Would you be proud to have produced this site? |
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Mark Telford's site |
| Background | Here are original illustrations from David Copperfield. It is also possible to read parts of the story. |
| Task | Explore some of them, then try drawing some illustrations in a similar style. They might be of your friends or family. Try to capture their character. |
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Click on the words 'The Images'. Choose from the list which appears. This will open the text with a small image. If that image interests you, scroll to the bottom of the page where you will find a link to open the picture in full size. |
| Background | Dickens made up wonderful names for some of his characters in his novels. Some are listed here. |
| Task | Read through some of these names then make up some of your own. |
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The Charles Dickens
Page -Dickens Characters |
| Background | Just a little snippet! You have probably heard people complaining about "red tape" meaning that they have to stick to lots of rules and regulations. |
| Task | Discover how and why the expression came about. Create humorous illustration to show what you have found out. |
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Peakland Heritage Site |
| Background | This is a resource for your teacher. On this page is a full synopsis of the story of David Copperfield. In the left hand column it relates the story to Charles Dickens' own life and will provide an excellent resource for Literacy. (Learning Objective Text Level 4: to consider how texts can be rooted in the writer's experience, e.g. historical events and places, experience of wartime, friendship, holidays.)"Dickens' eighth novel, illustrated by Phiz, is a thinly disguised autobiography with many of the story lines mirroring Dickens' own life." |
| Task | Use the first site for your information and background. The second site provides a reasonably simple biography of Charles Dickens, the third site a much briefer resume of David Copperfield. The fourth hyperlink will provide a downloadable Word document to aid this comparison. |
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Incwell
Biography Site Sparknotes
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