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Section 1: Young offenders 
Ideas for class activities Evidence of the past ONE: Ask pupils to look at the photographs of the Victorian young offenders from the resources section below. What do they notice about their appearance? How does it compare to their own? TWO: Discuss what photographic evidence of the past can tell us and what it can't, what other evidence can help us? Then and now ONE: Ask pupils to make comparisons between a child’s life in Victorian times and today, making use of the stories in the resources section below. Why might these children have stolen what they did? How might they have felt being sent to prison and away to reformatories? Get in role ONE: Ask pupils to write a story or role-play from the viewpoint of one of the young thieves below or the person they stole from. What happened just before / after the police photograph was taken? What was the reaction of Emma's employer, or the shopkeeper Dennis stole from? TWO: Ask pupils to imagine that they are in prison, what belongings would they miss or want to take with them and why? What belongings would a Victorian child possess? THREE: Ask pupils to be a journalist writing a report about one of the 'Victorian traffic offences' below. Learning outcomes Pupils can make comparisons between lifestyles today and in the past. Pupils can empathise with the experiences of other people and describe situations from other points of view, including some consequences of crime Pupils reflect on and communicate what they have learnt, orally and in drawing/writing. Click on resources and links: Dennis Fairey photograph ... Dennis' story Emma Gates photograph ... Emma's story Frederick Clark photograph ... Fred's story William May photograph ... William's story Eynesbury's female Fagin Victorian traffic offences in St Neots Huntingdon Gaol and some of its prisoners, 1851 Spreadsheet of Huntingdon Gaol prisoners, 1870
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