Process

=Web-quest Walk through London - your Process:=

First, before you do anything else, click here to open Google Docs Then create a new document where you will type the answers to the following questions.

Next, click on this link to see the blog I wrote while in London researching Charles Dickens and the Victorian era. It is called "Discovering Dickens's London" @http://usmenglish7dickens.blogspot.com

Then, when you have all three pages open as different tabs, click on the "Discovering Dickens's London" tab and read the title and description on the main blog page to get an idea of what it is all about.

And after that, notice that the dates of the blog entries are in reverse chronological order, or start with the most recent entry and go back in time. Navigate to the very first blog entry, or the one that I wrote first, and start reading there. This entry will be on the second page of the blog, and you can get there by scrolling down and finding the "older posts" link at the bottom of the page.

Work individually and answer **any SEVEN** or **EIGHT** of the following questions. Write down your answers in a Google Doc or on a piece of loose-leaf, but DO NOT worry about complete sentences. Instead, just be ready to answer the questions in a discussion tomorrow.

(//hint: find the earliest entries and read them.)//
 * 1.** What was the date when I was getting ready to go to London?

//(hint: some of these can come from the reading you did last night, others are mentioned in the three earliest posts I made.)//
 * 2.** Why was I glad that I wasn't actually time traveling back to Victorian era London? **Give three reasons.**

(//hint: you'll have to read about Whitechapel, Spitalfields and the Whitechapel Murders to find out.)//
 * 3.** What was the life expectancy of a working-class man in the 1850's?


 * 4.** According to professor **Sally Ledger**, what was it that made Charles Dickens so popular during his lifetime and after?


 * 5.** According to **Sally Ledger** what should young people do to understand the sometimes challenging language and extremely long sentences that Dickens uses?


 * 6.** Read my description and look at the videos of the house that Charles Dickens lived in, 48 Doughty street, now known as the **Charles Dickens Museum**. Give your impressions and opinions of it in a few sentences.


 * 7.** Why didn't Charles Dickens want to be buried somewhere famous like **Westminster Abbey**? What did he want instead? Why did he end up being buried there?


 * 8.** What caused the large cholera outbreak in the **Soho** area of London in 1854? Break down the events into a few main points.


 * 9.** According to the **Charles Dickens Walking tour post**, what job did Charles get just a few weeks after his twelfth birthday? What did he have to do?

Click on "**Resources**" if you need to get back to the blog.

Click on "**Evaluation**" when you have finished answering your questions.