Who were the people who arrived with the First Fleet?

How have their lives and values influenced our life in the 21st century?

Assignment 1

Look at the following websites and create a Venn Diagram comparing life of

the rich and poor   or   children and adults

during the early and middle 1800s.

This is what Charles Dickens saw when writing Great Expectations and Oliver.

Check about life in the factories and the statistics.

Make sure you click on the links at the bottom of this page about Victorian England.

An interactive site about children in Victorian England

This will give you a chance to walk in the shoes of a person who is eventually transported to Australia as a convict. 

Find out the answers to the questions below by using the following websites.

Questions to research

• What was it like living in the city areas of Britain?  How was it different if rich or poor?

• What type of jobs were available?  What did you do if unemployed? 

• What was happening in the country areas? 

• What did poor children do?  What did rich children do?

• How did families survive?

Assignment 2

Create a comic strip, write a song or write a script for a play

about your experience in court or the punishment you received.

You have now been caught stealing iron nails.  What is the process of convicting you at court?  Use the Old Bailey website to find out about different punishments and how the court works in the early 1800's.

Types of crimes committed                              Copy of the court records for someone caught stealing nails.          

How trials were run                                                    

Check out some of the verdicts

Your punishment

What was the journey from Newgate prison to the gallows at Tyburn like for those condemned to death?

Assignment 3

Create a mini 8 page booklet

to show what you have found out about the First Fleet.

You have now been convicted of stealing and sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay.  Use the database to find out the name of someone who was convicted for stealing something.  Include information about the people, the ships and the voyage to Australia.  You must include a graph and a map as part of your booklet.

Complete this work using Publisher - create 8 pages - use font Arial or Courier in size 16

This is a link is to a database of all the convicts in the First Fleet

Shows pictures of the First Fleet ships

Website created by historians interested in the first fleet.  Includes links to food brought on the voyage as well as the information on the convicts

General information about the first fleet.