Learning activities
Starter activities
Starter activity Sa (Links to any main
activity)
Divide the class into 6 groups. Each group to take one of the
newspaper extracts. Give the groups 5-10 minutes to read through
the quotes and then feedback to the rest of the class a summary of
what their extract is about.
Starter activity Sb (Links to Mb)
Explain to the children that a tragedy occurred in Worthing in
1893. How would they find out about it? (Thinking about sources.)
Teacher to guide the children through Pall Mall Gazette extract
(either one) and model asking key questions and answer to aid the
children's understanding.
Starter activity Sc (Links to any main activity but
particularly to Ma and Mb)
Look at a relevant website to show the effects of drinking
unclean/polluted water. (Teacher will need to source this but
suggested sites which may be useful: Wateraid, Oxfam, CAFOD, Save
the Children. The document below published by Wateraid
informs of diseases related to dirty water; typhoid is
mentioned on the 2nd page.)
Supporting document
Main activities
Main activity Ma (Links to any starter
activity)
Look through the picture sources together if not already done
so. Children to imagine that they are: 1) a child who has caught
the typhoid themselves, 2) the son or daughter of a shop keeper,
hotel owner or boatman, 3) One of Abraham Duffield's children.
Write a letter to your grandmother describing what life was like in
Worthing in the summer of 1893.
Main activity Mb (Links to Sb)
Children to then take the role of being an historical detective
and find out as much as they can about what happened in Worthing in
1893 using the rest of the sources. Children to generate a list of
questions on the board that they would want to find out the answer
to. (Teacher to guide them to Who, What, Why, Where, When questions
- they could use Mb Children's Activity Sheet.) Children to look
through sources to answer these. (See related suggested Extension
activity).
Main activity Mc (Links to any starter
activity)
Children to complete the Mc Activity Sheets either in pairs or
on their own using the sources. This can be done on the computers
or printed off. Teacher to model how to fill in the sheet or guide
the children through as a whole class activity.
Main activity Md (Links to any starter
activity)
Children to use the sources to generate a Town Crier's speech -
they will need to focus on the key facts of what has happened.
Children need to sum up the events in less than 1 minute.
Extension activity - The Who, What, Why, Where
sheet once filled in would provide an excellent frame for writing a
newspaper article on the typhoid in Worthing. This could be
completed on a computer to develop ICT skills such as formatting in
columns, fonts, adding pictures and so on.
Plenary activities
Plenary activity Pa (Links to any main
activity)
Every child to write 1 statement about the typhoid in Worthing
on a piece of paper, for example 1 in 16 people died, Abraham
Duffield had typhoid but lived. This statement can be true or
false. Read the statements out loud and the rest of the class (in
groups or individuals) to choose if it is true or false.
Plenary activity Pb (Links to Md)
Hear the Town Crier's Speeches. Children to evaluate how
effective the speeches have been, for example have they
included the most important facts and information quickly?
Plenary activity Pc (Links to any main activity but
particularly to Ma)
Have a Hot Seat chair - Children to take turns to come and
sit in the chair and explain who they are and what they have seen
in Worthing in 1893.