Year 8 are studying living conditions in industrial towns, and the source is John Leech's cartoon 'A Court for King Cholera', printed in Punch in 1852, between the cholera epidemics of 1848 to 1849 and 1853 to 1854. The teacher sets a Microsoft Form with the cartoon at the top and six long-answer questions below it. The first three ask what students can see: the crowd packed into a narrow court, the heap of refuse in the foreground, the lodging-house signs. The last three ask what they can infer: why the title calls cholera a king and this court his, who read Punch, and what the cartoonist wanted those readers to demand. Students type their answers on their own device while the teacher circulates and asks for the detail behind an inference. The Form does no marking; the teacher reads the answers after the lesson, as the exercise books were read before, and opens the next lesson with two strong answers to question six.
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