1. Name:………………………………………………………….
Teacher:……………………………………………………….
Date Task 1 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Date Task 2 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Level 3 and 4
Key Stage 3-Year 8
History Homework Booklet
Term 6:Living conditions during the Industrial
Revolution
Your Task:
Life in during the Industrial Revolution was very unpleasant in the towns and
cities that grew rapidly. The health and well-being of ordinary men, women
and children was in a pretty poor state in the early 1800s. The national
average age of death for the working British man was bout 30 – that’s
right, just 30 years of age! In some places like Liverpool, it was 15. One in
every five children died before their first birthday and one in every three
died before their fifth birthday. One of the reasons for this was because the
water was so dirty. This created a disease called cholera and it meant that
people were dying because they were drinking dirty water. Your task is to
investigate sources to find out more information about what the cholera
epidemic was and what caused it.
Historians use sources to find out information out about the past. When
historians look at sources they have to think carefully about what the sources
are saying.

2. A cartoon drawn in the
1850s when the most
people were dying during
a cholera epidemic (from
Punch Magazine)
Source 1
1.) What can you see in Source 1?
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2.) What do you think Source 1 is trying to say about water in the 1850s? EXPLAIN
WHY YOU THINK THIS
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Task 1

3. 3.Is Henry Mayhew’s account a primary or secondary
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4. Why is Mayhew so shocked by what he
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5. What do you think will happen to the boys who wash in the river
and why do you think this?
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Source 2
Henry Mayhew, ‘Journeys through London’ a book written to tell
people about what he saw in London; 1849
“As we gazed in horror, we saw drains and sewers emptying their filthy
contents into the river; we saw a whole row of doorless privies (toilets)
in the open road, shared by both men and women. Built over the river;
we heard bucket after bucket of filth splash into the river, and homeless
boys bathing in it.”
Task 2

4. Key Stage 3 History Homework
Term 3- The English Civil War
Name:
These grades are
recorded in GO.
Current Grade:
Poor/ Satisfactory/ Good/ Excellent
What you did well:
You have made excellent judgements
using sources and have explained
them well.
You have made excellent judgements
using sources.
You make good judgements about
how useful the source is.
You have picked out good information
from sources.
You have picked out some information
from sources.
Your spelling, punctuation, and
grammar in this work is excellent.
Your work is very well presented.
Your work shows excellent effort.
Your work shows some good effort.
Targets to improve further:
You need to give more detail when
explaining what you have found out
from the sources.
You need to give evidence from the
source to support your points.
You need to cover more points to
explain how useful a source is.
You need to think about what the
source tells you but does not actually
say.
You need to explain the judgements
that you make from sources.
You need to read sources more
carefully.
Take more care with your spelling,
punctuation and grammar.
Take more care with the presentation
of your work.
Your work shows it would benefit
from more effort.
Student Response
Note here anything you are not sure about:
Miss Limm