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Monday, 16 November 2009

Homework return by Wednesday November 25th.

Homework- to be returned on Wednesady November 25rd.


Using books, the internet and the library, research the life of a person of interest, ideally it should be someone who lived during Victorian times.
Write their Biography.

Remember to include:

- Main facts about their life.
- What people and/or events influenced them?
- What was their effect on life during Victorian times and on life since then – their legacy.?
- What did people at the time think of them?
- What do people think of them now?

Ideas

Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria
Charles Dickens
Michael Faraday
Alexander Graham Bell
David Davies (Rhondda mine owner)
Lord Shaftesbury (Politian)
Lewis Carrol
Charles Darwin
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Lister


Maths sheet. – the children have a paper copy of this.