English year 7

• Conditions in Whitechapel 1888
• Smoke and stinking gas filled the air – 'Pea Soupers' green smog
• Housing for poor people was still bad – no sanitation and streets were like mazes
• Little work available for women
• For most women the only way they could 'escape' their terrible lives was by drinking – many became helpless alcoholics
• Victims of Jack the Ripper

  • Polly Nicholls
  • Annie Chapman
  • Lizzie Stride
  • Catherine Eddowes
  • Mary Jane Kelly
• Industrial revolution: 1700s-1900s
• Reasons for the population boom

  • Better trained doctors and nurses
  • Jenner's jabs – developed smallpox vaccine
  • Education improved – diet, healthy lives, cleaning
  • Couples getting married younger and baby boom – more children per family
  • Midwives taking better care of pregnant women / young babies
  • Cleaner cities – clean water and sewers installed, parks and wider streets made
• Key suspects


  • Thomas Neil Cream – American doctor
  • John Pizer – shoemaker
  • Aaron Kosminski – sent to the insane asylum
  • Prince Albert Victor – Duke of Clarence
  • Montague John Druitt – gentleman and schoolmaster
• Create a Mind Map about each aspect of life in Canterbury and Baghdad. Pick out main differences between them.
• Create a Tree Map about each aspect of life in Manchester and San Francisco. Pick out main similarities between them.
• hypocrite - someone who pretends to have moral principles that they do not really believe in
• gullible - easily deceived, naive
• fraudulent - not genuine or honest
• inquisitive - curious or eager to know things
• lucrative - profitable; making a lot of money
• naïve - lacking experience or knowledge of the world; innocent
• dishonest - lacking integrity; untrustworthy
• cynical - believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity
• malevolent - wicked or cruel
• manipulative - using cleverness or dishonesty to control people or situations
• disillusioned - disappointed because something has turned out differently from what was expected
• deceptive - intended to mislead or trick
• perceptive - having good powers of observation
• naïve - lacking experience; innocent
• misleading - giving an incorrect impression about something
• reputable - respected by others because of their character or achievements
• deceptive - misleading; intended to trick someone into believing something that is false
• prudent - careful and sensible about managing resources
• perceptive - having good powers of observation and understanding
• pioneer - the first person or group to discover or develop something new
• unscrupulous - having no moral principles; willing to do anything to achieve one's goals
• deceptive - intended to mislead or trick someone
• disgraceful - causing shame or dishonour