Starter quiz
- Queen Victoria wrote that babies looked….
- 'ugly' ✓
- How many children did Victoria and Albert have together?
- 3
- 5
- 7
- 9 ✓
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- Victoria and Albert's first child was a girl who was born in…
- 1740
- 1840 ✓
- 190
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- Which of Victoria and Albert’s children became king after Victoria died in 1901?
- Victoria
- Albert Edward ✓
- Beatrice
- Leopold
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- What was chloroform?
- one of Victoria’s dogs
- something Victoria liked to eat
- something used to help with pain ✓
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- True or False. Chloroform became quite popular because Queen Victoria used it.
- True ✓
- False
Exit quiz
- Match the word to the correct meaning.
- society⇔a large group of people who share the same ruler, laws and resources ✓
- classes⇔groups of people based on the job they do or how much money they have ✓
- What was Ford Maddox Brown’s job?
- a teacher
- a doctor
- a painter ✓
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- True or False. Wealthy means someone doesn’t have much money.
- True
- False ✓
- Who was the ruler of the United Kingdom when Victorian society existed?
- Queen Victoria ✓
- King Charles III
- Queen Elizabeth II
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- Select all the people that can be seen in the painting called ‘Work’.
- a flower seller ✓
- children ✓
- the queen
- navvies ✓
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- A painting called ‘Work’ was painted in...
- 1665
- 1765
- 1865 ✓
- 1965
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Key learning points
- During Victoria's reign there were very clear groups of people, called classes, in society.
- Ford Madox Brown's 1865 painting called 'Work' shows some of these alongside many other aspects of Victorian life.
- In the middle of the painting are a group of workers called 'navvies', who are digging up the road to build a tunnel.
- Around them are both rich and poor men and women, a group of orphaned children and some sleeping unemployed men.
- At the top of the painting are two wealthy figures on horseback whose progress has been stopped by the work.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that classes in society are small groups, like classes at school.
Classes are groups of people, but classes in society include thousands, sometimes millions of people and they are not age related like school classes, they depend on other factors like wealth or profession.
Keywords
Society - society is a large group of people who share the same ruler, laws and resources
Classes - classes are groups of people based on the job they do or how much money they have
Wealthy - If you have a lot of money and own many expensive things then you are wealthy
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