Year 8 have read the main terms of the 1833 Factory Act: no child under nine in a textile mill other than a silk mill, no more than nine hours a day for children aged nine to twelve, no more than twelve for those aged thirteen to seventeen, no night work for anyone under eighteen and two hours of schooling a day for the children. The teacher runs a ten-question Wayground quiz in which each question is a case an inspector might meet in 1840: a boy of eleven working twelve hours in a cotton mill, a fifteen-year-old on the night shift in a woollen mill, a girl of eight in a silk mill, a boy of twelve hauling coal underground, a woman of thirty working fourteen hours in a cotton mill. Students choose against the Act, allowed by the Act, or outside the Act because it is not a textile mill, and Wayground tells them at once whether they were right. The teacher watches the report and stops to reteach the two cases most students got wrong. Students finish by writing why four inspectors, and no birth certificates for children born before 1837, made even clear cases hard to prove.
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