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Summary of Lesson 1
In today’s lesson we began studying Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help plan and write the paragraphs assigned for homework. The powerpoint contains loads of information on the context of Oliver Twist, thinking about how the backdrop of Victorian England, ideas on social class, the workhouse and Victorian attitudes towards children have influenced the themes in the book, whilst also considering how we can connect the plot of the book to Dickens’ own experiences in childhood. We also discussed ideas around social class and the way Dickens plays with our assumptions about particular characters in order to make a greater political point about Victorian inequality. The powerpoint also contains a model example paragraph on the theme of poverty in the book which the students should use to help them with using quotations in their homework. Today’s classes were exceptionally switched on and hardworking, I was super impressed by all the work they completed and by the maturity and thoughtfulness of their contributions, particularly on the injustice of the Victorian social hierarchy and the ideas of good and evil in the book. I really loved hearing all of the class’s ideas regarding the context of the novel and how this intersects with both Dickens’ life and the particular societal positions of characters in the book. We had some really outstanding ideas floating around the class today and I really enjoyed teaching all of you. Really well done everyone, you should all be super proud of yourselves. Keep up the amazing work and I will see you all next week 😊
Homework
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This book was clearly made to show the reality of the world. Dickens does not create a dream world that captures the optimism of readers. He is truly showing things as they really are; how the world really is. He carefully planned his setting and his description of places so they could capture every detail of the hard life. As Martin Price put it in Dickens, “Oliver Twist is not a satisfying novel-it does not liberate us”. Dickens’ purpose was to spark a sense of rage through people’s hearts towards the English workhouses. He was promoting reform by getting the people “involved” in the melodramatic novel of Oliver Twist.
Dickens is unique in the way he often talks to the reader in “one to one” conversations. He does this through Oliver Twist as a way of getting the reader closer to the story. Acting, indeed, as Dickens implies in his facetious but revealing preamble to Chapter 17.
In the first chapter of Oliver Twist, Dickens moves from comedy to pathos and from pathos to satire. He takes us from the drunken old woman to the dying mother to the hardened doctor. Such rare switches help in all the later novels to hold together disparate effects, to give that double opportunity for Oliver to be innocent. In this first chapter, Dickens also captures life and death in a single sentence, “Let me see the child, and die.” This sums up the mother’s will to see the newborn baby, and takes a short hope from birth to death.-
I’m resubmitting Lesson 1’s homework, hope it could be marked, Thank you.
There are several morals in the book Oliver Twist.
The first one is the social differentiation.in the west and in the east, it is like in the different world, in the west it is like heaven, but in the east it’s like hell. So, the differences between the two area. In the book it described the east as dirty and the streets was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odors. In the west it describes as everything was quiet, and neat, and orderly, everybody was kind and gentle.
The second moral is the fight between life and death. In the first chapter of Oliver Twist, Dickens uses Oliver’s mother to tell us the moral. He tells us a drunken old woman is vagabondage in the corner of a street. This tells us Oliver is innocent. The writer described life and death in a single sentence, “Let me see the child, and die.” This summarized the mothers yearn to see the newborn baby, and takes a short hope from birth to death.
The third moral is violence. It is a very clear moral. This moral violence effects most on the character William Sikes, Monks, and Fagin. Throughout the story Sikes, Monks, and Fagin always uses violence to solve problems, for example Sikes hits Oliver Twist with a fire-gun in Mr. Brownlow’s house, and he hits his own women for going out in the night, and nearly killed Nancy after she came back. Whenever a kid had done something that disappointed Fagin, Fagin will use a stick to hit them.
These are the three moral I can think of in the book Oliver Twist.
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Hi Beth, here is my homework.
Hope you enjoy it!
Yinghao
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ej3DR4WzEaxvcnC_ml7hJcGrhCxuZ154qaNhCO3mjcM/edit
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Question B
The characters who challenged my preconceptions the most were Nancy and Mr Grimwig. They both were different from what I expected them to be and changed during the novel.
I expected Mr Grimwig to be more like Mr Brownlow and be more believing in people. He was constantly saying he would eat his head if he wasn’t right and constantly contradicted Mr Brownlow which makes it hard to believe they could be friends. Instead of being the same throughout the novel though, he changed once he met Rose Maylie and became jolly and happier.
I thought Nancy would be the same throughout the book like Artful Dodger and be consistent in being happy where she was. She used to be the loudest in the room always the middle of it but in the end, she was always in the shadow and out of the way. I didn’t expect her to start liking Oliver or to risk her life to help him by giving information to Mr Brownlow but she did and was found out. Nancy was with Fagin’s gang since she was little and was stuck with them so she was forced into it but in the end, she found she didn’t want to.
I didn’t expect Mr Grimwig to be so tough and hard hearted but eventually he changed into what I thought he would be near the end of the novel. I thought that Nancy would be consistent and stay the same throughout the book but she switched sides to help Oliver. Both of the characters I chose changed and became nicer throughout the book showing that anyone can change.
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Summary of Lesson 2
In today’s lesson we continued studying Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help plan and write the diary entries assigned for homework. The powerpoint contains loads of information on the themes of the novel, model P.E.E. paragraphs discussing how themes are explored in the book, ideas on narrative voice and perspective and our work on character analysis and inference. Everyone worked really well today, I particularly enjoyed everyone’s engagement in the hot seating exercise, all your questions, inference skills and acting skills were brilliant! You should all be super proud of your work today, you all came up with some really thoughtful and insightful ideas on the themes in the book and also dealt with the idea of narrative voice/ perspective and its impact fantastically. Really impressive and sparky work today guys, keep up the lovely energy and engagement and I will see you all next week. Well done! 🙂
Homework
Here is the link to the Horrible Histories video on Victorian life. The sketch I’d like you to watch about criminal life is between 4.47-7.00 mins but if you want you can watch the whole thing!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVGaumifWkE&feature=emb_logo
Here is the link to an interesting document about the theme of crime in the novel. Give it a read if you have time for some more information about the history and themes behind Oliver Twist: https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-7716-7717-TO-CRIME-OT.PDF
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Sorry for the late submitting.
Dear diary:
today I bought a kid home I can’t go to Sam water a pretty handsome boy, he didn’t open his eyes but I can see his face well the reason I kind of adopted him it’s because I went to the book shop today I went inside because outside was too cold I was looking at a pile near the window and I saw two kids picking up an old man’s pocket. I thought ‘oh pocket pickers.’ Well, then I saw a boy standing across the street looking afraid and innocent. Two other boys were the pocket pickers but the crowd thought it is the boy standing across the street, who stole the handkerchief. I saw it so I think I must be justice so I follow the crowd. When I caught them, they were in the police station when I ran through the door. they were committing the crime I told them the whole story I saw as quickly as I can. Just when Sam was going to say something he falls in faint I recognize he was poor, so I bought him home. Oh, I can’t describe how poor he was his clothes were ripped into some pieces, there were patches, and dirt on his trousers. he had no shoes at all, only a pair of broken sandals. I after I bought him home, he still did not wake up, Miss Corney feed him some syrup and medicine I hope he can open his eyes tomorrow
Mr. Brownlow
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I was sitting on the bench, near the large stone walls of the market charming some men and pick-pocketing when a slim young boy was sitting there, all alone. As soon as I looked at his pathetic body I knew what to do. I knew that we had just lot a lot of men and Fagin would be happy for some new recruits. He had a pathetic and poor look so that it would be good for tricking people for money and he was also slim, good for pick pocketing. So I went up to him and asked him if he was hungry. I gave him some bread (some I just stole) to make him trust me and then introduced myself and told me his name was Oliver. He then asked me whether I knew a person who would be kind enough to take him in so it was the perfect time to trick him into joining Fagin and his gang. This is how I joined Fagin’s clan a young gentleman bribed me into it, however I forgave him as I soon made ‘friends’ and became in favour Fagin. As I started talking about the ‘someone’ who was taking him in, I started to feel a strange feeling up my oesophagus. I mean, I could be lied to but maybe Oliver couldn’t take it. I started to hesitate however I knew that Fagin would be nice so I decided to take him in.
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One day I was walking in the streets, looking for things that I could steal and was valuable, as I stumbled opon this cadaverous dude. His face was pale, and he looked tired. He had he had melancholy, bright eyes that glistened in the sun. He was sitting there as if he was a begger. He was wearing raged, dirty clothing, and his face was covered in dust, he had a dirty, (like him) little bag, that was made of a handkerchief attached to a stick. He looked exausted and ravenous, and looked like a person that had some talent in stealing. I knew that Fagan would be willing to have a new recruit, so I talked to him.
“Hey there!” I shouted
“yes?” was his reply
“what’s your name?”
“O…O…Oliver T…Twist” he replied in a tired voice.
Then I told him that I was going to take him to a place that he would be treated properly, so I took him to our ‘lair’.
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Dear Diary,
Today while I was visiting Fagin with Bet, I met a very nice young boy named Oliver. It turns out that Artful Dodger Just brought him in yesterday and had found him on the street. Anyway, when we arrived, Fagin was playing with Artful Dodger and Charley and Oliver was there, watching. So, I went over to him and I asked some questions. Apparently, he was an orphan from a workhouse and had ran away from a person Called Sowerberry whom he was apprentice to. Oliver seemed very nice and was very polite and I was in the middle of a conversation with him about workhouses when Bet interrupted by complaining that she had a cold on her inside. After that, I couldn’t get near enough to Oliver to continue our conversation. Fagin gave us some money for Bill’s cut for the latest “delivery.” At least, that’s what he said. Charley and Artful Dodger came with me and Bet but Fagin kept Oliver home with him for some reason. I guessed he kept him home to train him. I will definitely try to visit as soon as possible, and I hope I see him soon.
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Hello,
Here is the link to my homework
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RImeaRn3ar1y6VST76JzRdTs4n_zaK2fkoA16nwS2Zc/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you 😀
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Summary for Lesson 3
In today’s lesson we continued studying Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help plan and write the paragraphs assigned for homework. The powerpoint contains our work on character analysis, using both skills of inference and close textual analysis to find evidence for opinions formed on this basis, along with our ideas on the importance of villany and villains in the novel and our thoughts on whether the book has a nuanced or more black and white view of morality. We had a really interesting discussion on whether Oliver was a passive or active protagonist and how that affected the tone of the book and I also really thought that the class’s work analysing an excerpt from Chapter 10 of Oliver Twist was outstanding. The P.E.E. close textual analysis paragraphs produced were really exceptional, demonstrating an ability to use quotations effectively and to identify the effect of language really well. The class worked fantastically today, I was really impressed by the work produced so well done everyone! I will see you all next week for our final lesson, and until then keep up the fab work! 🙂
Homework
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This is my homework L2
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T0t3k-MPtkuUiT_-QoKUj5-Mfad7wxy_O_a_tyAJ9U/edit
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Here is my homework for lesson 2 question b:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VEJZKRfvq7YEbwjNrdnV1WI9EphPzidgQewlhQO0ZwQ/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you 😀
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In some stories a villain character is evil, but in Oliver Twist, the villains are sneaky and rude. today I want to talk about one specific villain. He is known as ‘the old merry gentleman’ or the ‘Jew’. Yes, you are right it is Fagin! I think he is not the traditional way of being a villain, he is far more complicated!
The first opinion is the use of children. He uses children to ‘work’ for him and to steal things for him. The result of doing this is if the children have been caught by the police, the first people who will take responsibility is the children, but after asking or others it comes to Fagin who has the responsibility. However, although he takes advantage of the children, he gives them three meals and a place to stay and sleep, a place called ‘home’.
The second idea is Oliver. On one side he is protecting Oliver with Nancy from Bill Sikes, on the other hand, he is with Bill Sikes claiming Oliver. We can see clearly at first when Fagin meets Oliver. First Fagin was kind and warm-hearted, he let Oliver sleep in his room. Then on the next morning when Fagin didn’t know Oliver was up, he got out his jewelry box under the carpet. Then Oliver woke up with the sounds, at this time the devil shone its face, he used the scissors to force Oliver to tell him what did he see. This shows us that Fagin is very selfish and money-loving.These are the two main reasons why I think Fagin is a complicated villain
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I’m resubmitting Lesson 2’s homework, hope it could be marked, Thank you.
There are several morals in the book Oliver Twist.
The first one is the social differentiation.in the west and in the east, it is like in the different world, in the west it is like heaven, but in the east it’s like hell. So, the differences between the two area. In the book it described the east as dirty and the streets was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odors. In the west it describes as everything was quiet, and neat, and orderly, everybody was kind and gentle.
The second moral is the fight between life and death. In the first chapter of Oliver Twist, Dickens uses Oliver’s mother to tell us the moral. He tells us a drunken old woman is vagabondage in the corner of a street. This tells us Oliver is innocent. The writer described life and death in a single sentence, “Let me see the child, and die.” This summarized the mothers yearn to see the newborn baby, and takes a short hope from birth to death.
The third moral is violence. It is a very clear moral. This moral violence effects most on the character William Sikes, Monks, and Fagin. Throughout the story Sikes, Monks, and Fagin always uses violence to solve problems, for example Sikes hits Oliver Twist with a fire-gun in Mr. Brownlow’s house, and he hits his own women for going out in the night, and nearly killed Nancy after she came back. Whenever a kid had done something that disappointed Fagin, Fagin will use a stick to hit them.
These are the three moral I can think of in the book Oliver Twist.
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I am doing question A
I think that Fagin was a complicated character because he stole and murdered not just for fun, but to survive. He also took In many poor people so that they would live. However, he is complicated as he killed many people and stole. However, again he did it to survive. He and his gang did bad to the town so he would be evil however he took in many poor and homeless people so in my opinion, he is more in the middle than good or evil.
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Summary for Lesson 4
In today’s lesson we completed our study of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, applying all we had learnt so far to an exam paper on the topic. The powerpoint with all of the resources and the exam paper are attached below, which should be used to help plan and write the mock exam question assigned for homework. The powerpoint contains lots of information on how to identify what a comprehension question is asking you to do (retrieve, infer, language analysis), contains ideas on how students can put themselves in the examiner’s shoes and anticipate particular types of questions, and has our work on the summarising the key points in Oliver’s journey, along with our final reflections on the book. The students worked brilliantly today, I particularly enjoyed the work they completed on the genre of tragedy and their wonderful contributions on the way in which Nancy can be read as a tragic character (they made some fantastic remarks regarding the freedoms and unfreedoms extended to women in the Victorian age which were very sensitive and thoughtful). I also thought that the discussion we had on why the book was still important to read today was super illuminating and interesting. Their analysis of the extract was fab and overall everyone did excellently today. Really well done everyone, it has been a pleasure to teach you all and I really hope to see you all in my lessons again soon. Keep up the amazing work guys, you should all be very proud of your work 🙂
Homework
P.S. Remember you can also submit the comprehension questions 7-16 from the exam paper for me to mark if you would like some practice and feedback. I’ve attached the paper below 🙂
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Lesson 4’s homework:
Yesterday, Mum went to pick dad up from the train station, so I have to go home by myself. “It’s freezing” I thought. The trees moved slowly like a musician had cursed them, moving like piano playing, there was misty street lamps. I walked down to the supermarket, by the noisy sound of traffic, and beeping of cars. I jogged throw the ally, and in out garden.
In the garden, I saw trees flashing themselves their branches were swinging, some motor cycles were collapse by the strong wind. I was suddenly in a cold wild winter day. “Would I be robed, but wait a minute I am just a student, I am not a millionaire.” I thought.
As the deeper I thought, the deeper I was scared. The devil and stock, I ran fiercely back home. Once I came home I heard the wind howling, the windows were talking “ding jin”. “Finally, home” I thought.
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Sorry, there was a mistake in my homework.
7. He washed his clothes, burnt the stains, let the hair catch on fire and then blew it away.
8. The dog had bloody feet so it would be evidence that he killed Nancy. He also needed to be very cautious so he wouldn’t be suspicious.
9. He ensures no one can find or see the body.
10. It is a memorial of Dick Whittington.
11. The phrase ‘snails pace’.
12. He sleeps under a hedge in a field up north.
13. It wasn’t crowded and there was food and drink.
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