ABSTRACT
This book will support children as they:
* Write a school report for a Victorian pupil
* Compile the biography of a real-life circus performer- "The Human Canon Ball"
* Produce a letter to complain about the after-effects of the Victorian remedy carbolic smoke balls!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part 1|53 pages
Source materials and activities
chapter |2 pages
‘Now is the time to buy one!’
chapter |2 pages
How (not) to speak Cockney
chapter |2 pages
Victorian problems
chapter |2 pages
Code crackers
chapter |2 pages
Amazing cures (1)
chapter |2 pages
Amazing cures (2)
chapter |2 pages
Somnambulism (sleep-walking)
chapter |2 pages
Defying death
chapter |2 pages
Further death-defying challenges
chapter |2 pages
Victorian celebrity fact file
chapter |2 pages
One trick too many
chapter |2 pages
Object lessons
chapter |2 pages
Misbehaving pupils
chapter |2 pages
School Inspector's Report
chapter |2 pages
Victorian vandals
chapter |2 pages
What a nuisance
chapter |2 pages
Booking an entertainment
chapter |2 pages
Playing games
chapter |2 pages
Nursery rhymes
chapter |2 pages
Lost and found
chapter |2 pages
Situations vacant
chapter |2 pages
Posters
chapter |2 pages
Hints for home comfort
chapter |2 pages
Words of wisdom
chapter |2 pages
A pleasant stay?
chapter |2 pages
Disasters
part 2|25 pages
Anthology
