Oliver Twist Lesson Plan

Setting the Scene: “A Night in a Workhouse” by James Greenwood

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

to contextualize the novel by understanding its historical setting, to compare and contrast different media

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.7

Structure:

Introduce the text: James Greenwood was an investigative reporter who, commissioned by his brother (the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette), decided to investigate how paupers lived. He disguised himself as a pauper and checked himself into the Lambeth Workhouse for a night. (His friend Bittlestone joined him, but is excluded from the...