Key Words:On mini-whiteboards match up the letter to

the letter to show the correct meaning.Word Meaning1) Self-help: A) Make/Introduce changes.2) Welfare state: B) The belief that people are

responsible for their own well being.

3) Reforms: C) The state of being extremely poor/having an insufficient amount.

4) Class: D) The State. (government) provide help to the needy.

5) Poverty: E) Division of society.

Challenging the view of

poverty.

Learning Objectives:

- To identify what the Victorian idea of poverty was until 1905.

- To analyse 3 reformers who challenged the idea of poverty and what they discovered.

- To evaluate the reliability of 2 sources.

Friday 20th September 2013HISTORY

Charles Booth

Seebohm Rowntree

Today’s learning…

Learning OutcomesAll: Will be able to state the Victorian idea

of poverty.Most: Will be able to explain the findings of

3 reformers.Some: Will be able to explain how the

reforms discoveries challenged the Victorian idea of poverty.

Historical Skills

EnquiryUsing evidence

Thinking Skills

1) By 1890 what were the hours of work and wages like for ordinary people?

Background 1890-1905.The Great Race!

Instructions:• Working as a table you need to complete the questions.• However, you only get one question at a time, I will then

check your answer and give you the next question.• The first group to answer all the questions win.

• Use BDS p8-9 to help you.

Learning objective 1: To identify what the Victorian idea of

poverty was until 1905.

Pit-stop 3min

Salvation army?

Living conditions?

Blame?How had the Victorian idea of

poverty changed?

Three circles?

Had poverty been solved by 1905?

Charles Booth/Seebohm Rowntree.

Instructions:• Read p10-11 of BDS.

• Arrange the cards under the appropriate name.

• Stick them into your books.

Extended: On a whiteboard can you list any categories you can arrange the information into?

Learning objective 1: To analyse 3 reformers who challenged the idea of poverty and what they discovered.

Charles Booth/Seebohm Rowntree.

Instructions:Colour code the information under booth and

Rowntree.1. Why they became involved in the study.

2. Details about their investigation. (When, where, name)

3. What did their investigation reveal about poverty?4. How did their investigations challenge the Victorian

idea of poverty?

Learning objective 2: To analyse 3 reformers who challenged the idea of poverty and what they discovered.

Pit-stop 3min

Salvation army?

Living conditions?

Blame?How had the Victorian idea of

poverty changed?

Poverty?

What did Booth and Rowntree agree on?

Learning objective 2: To analyse 3 reformers who challenged the idea of poverty and what they discovered.

Who am I?

• I was not related to the people in the Salvation’s army.• Booth• I printed 17 volumes of my 17 year study.• Booth• I was from York and carried out research here for two years.• Rowntree• My reports were called : Life and Labour of the People in

London.• Booth• I was interested in an earlier reformers work.• Rowntree

Who am I?

• I looked into poverty as I thought the reports were exaggerated. I found they were actually underestimated.

• Charles Booth• I collected masses of information about the poor

living in London.• Charles Booth• I believed in primary and secondary poverty.• Rowntree

Who am I?• My book was called Poverty: a study of Town life.• Rowntree• I found about 30 % were living under the poverty line. (Unable

to afford decent food, clothing and accommodation.)• Charles Booth• I found around 27 % of the population of York lived in poverty.• Rowntree• I showed that the Victorian idea that poverty was the fault of

the poor themselves was not true.• Both• I developed the idea of the poverty line and divided it into

primary and secondary poverty. Primary poverty was the worse.

• Rowntree• My book influenced MPs- people in position to help the poor. • Both

1. -A source based on one persons experience.-A source based on more than one persons experience.

2. -A source that was produced at the time.-A source that was produced after the event.

3. -A one sided source.-A well balanced source.

4. -A source can be backed up with evidence.-A source stands on its own.

What makes a source reliable?

Learning objective 3: To evaluate the reliability of 2 sources..

• With trust/ reliability questions you need to think about:

• Which one represents a wider view of society?• Who were they produced for and why?• Look at the language used in each source- is it

biased? Does this affect its reliability?• What knowledge supports the source detail?

Reliability questions.

Study sources B and C in BDS p74-75.Answer the question: Is one source more reliable than the other to

an Historian studying poverty at the beginning of the 20C?

Learning objective 3: To evaluate the reliability of 2 sources..

Source B.Under the window facing the door is the large bed, in which sleep mother, father and two children. A baby is asleep in a pram by the bed and another child is asleep in a cot in the corner. The second window can be, and is, left partly open at night. At the foot of the bed is a small table. Three wooden chairs and a chest of drawers complete the furniture. The small fireplace has no over, and open shelves go up each side of it. There are two saucepans, both burnt. There is no larder.

From Round about a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Peeves, published in 1913. She is describing a room in Lambeth, south London, lived in by one family in the early year of the twentieth century.

How reliable is this source?

Learning objective 3: To evaluate the reliability of 2 sources..

• Swap books with someone on your table.• Highlight the following information in their answer.

(NB: Each source should refer to all 5 points).1. With trust/ reliability questions you need to think

about:2. Which one represents a wider view of society?3. Who were they produced for and why?4. Look at the language used in each source- is it

biased? Does this affect its reliability?5. What knowledge supports the source detail?

Peer assessment.

Learning objective 3: To evaluate the reliability of 2 sources..