The Victorian Period 1832-1901

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The Victorian Period1832-1901

• Key Vocabulary and Historical Points
• Take notes in your journal

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Warm Up

• With your partner, read Think About (Holt 678)
  as a preview to the chapter.
• Then with your partner, discuss the question,
  What did the Victorians have confidence in?
• Each students writes their answer in their own
  journal.

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Key Vocabulary (Take Notes-write down EVERYTHING)

• Progress advance or development toward
  betterment.
• Middle class society between lower and upper,
  including professional workers and their
  families.
• Aristocracy the highest socioeconomic class
• Working class class that is employed for wages,
  usually manual or industrial labor.
• Optimism a tendency towards hopefulness and
  confidence.

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Industrial Revolution

• Created towns, goods, wealth and jobs.
• Included gradual political reforms (political
  change)

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The Ideas of Progress

• Progress meant a improvement in living
  conditions.
• The English Historian Macaulay proposed reforms
  because the cities were crowed and filthy.

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The Hungry FortiesThe Depression of 1842

• This was a time when 1.5 million people were
  unemployed.
• People were in need of help and food.
• There were poor working conditions.
• The potato famine
• Pollution and filth in the cities.

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Reform

• Rallies were held to change the price of food and
  voting rights.
• Reform lead to improvements in diet
• -food prices dropped and people had more access
  to food.

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Class System

• If you had gentility and decorum (showing
  refinement, elegance and good taste) you had a
  greater chance at success.

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Education

• Daily life became more comfortable and the
  population became more literate.
• People believed that science and government could
  solve the worlds problems.

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Interactive Reader

• Open your interactive reader to page 197.
• Follow the instructions on the following slides.

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IR Page 197

• Read the page then underline lines 16,17, 18 to
  identify the changes that resulted from the
  Industrial Revolution (Identify cause and effect)

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Page 198

• Read the entire page as a class.
• Paraphase-Macaulay thought that progress meant an
  improvement in ___________? Fill in the blanak
  with your partner.
• Draw Conclusions-The city was crowded, confusing
  and _______? Think of one more adjective to add.
• Clarify-How many people were unemployed?
• -write the answer under clarify.

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Page 199

• Read the page as a class.
• With your partner, what does emigrate mean? Write
  the answer under Word Study?
• Identify cause and effect- Underline the
  negative effects of the rapid city growth in
  lines 61, 65, 66, 67 and 69/70.

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Page 200

• Read the page as a class.
• Infer-circle why they people had rallies (lines
  1-4) . Explain the reason for the rallies to your
  partner in your own words.
• Identify cause and effect- underline answer in
  line 87/88 and circle the answer in lines 88-90.
• Identify-with your partner list the three reforms
  under Identify.

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Page 201

• Read the page as a class.
• Word Study-Read Word Study and then talk to your
  partner about the class system (refer to your
  notes if you need to). Write your answer in your
  IR.
• Compare and Contrast-circle and underline your
  answer.
• Identify-underline the answers in lines 133-135.
  Check your answer with your partners.

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Page 202

• Read page as a class
• Infer-Write As daily life became more
  comfortable and the population became literate,
  people had the ability and leisure to pursue
  knowledge. With your partner, discuss what that
  answer means.
• Clarify-Look for the answer in lines 156-158.
  Check your answer with your partners. Share with
  the class.
• Identify-Underline the three questions/doubts in
  lines 160-165.

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Page 203

• Read page as a class.
• Word Study-Read Word Study then answer with your
  partner. Check your answer with the teacher.
• Identify Cause and Effect- circle the answer in
  lines 181, 182 and 183.

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Page 204

• Read page as a class.
• Generate Questions-with your partner, think of
  one question to ask about Dickenss life or
  books. Pairs, share with the class.
• Word Study- underline the context clue that tells
  what transcendental means (lines 202 and 203)
• Identify-underline 3 answers (lines 211/212, line
  213, lines 216-219).

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Page 205

• Read page as a class.
• Compare and Contrast-find the answer in lines
  224-226. Write the answer in your own words.
• Clarify- Write the answer Victorian writers
  wanted to challenge or change their readers
  ideas and feelings about their lives and
  society. With your partner, think of someone in
  our culture that does the same thing now. It can
  be a actor, musician, politician, authorShare
  the answers with the whole class.

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Own your own and in your journal, make a T chart
andList two social and political milestones from
the Victorian Era.

• Two Social Milestones
• 1)
• 2)

• Two Political Milestones
• 1)
• 2)