Injustice Through Historical Perspectives
A5: Synthesis Practice
L/O: to understand how to draw
information together coherently
Synthesis: this is the combination of
components or elements to form a
connected whole.
How are these two images similar?
Link to the question
Quote
Explain your opinion linked to what both texts show/suggest
According to these two pictures 19
th
C and 21
st,
how do
criminals need to be recorded?
According to these two writers, why are
conditions in jail poor?
19
th
Century Extract
In this extract Charles Dickens asks us to
imagine being a prisoner spending their last
night in a cell before execution.
We entered the first cell. It was a stone
dungeon, eight feet long by six wide, with a
bench at the upper end, under which were a
common rug, a bible, and prayer-book. An iron
candlestick was fixed into the wall at the side;
and a small high window in the back admitted
as much air and light as could struggle in
between a double row of heavy, crossed iron
bars. It contained no other furniture of any
description.
Conceive the situation of a man, spending his
last night on earth in this cell. Buoyed up with
some vague and undefined hope of reprieve,
he knew not why - indulging in some wild and
visionary idea of escape.
A 2016 Article from the Guardian
Ministry of Justice figures in January
show the prison is running at 166% over
the “certified normal capacity”. Bickers
says: “I don’t feel it is overcrowded, but
the prison wasn’t built to house 1,600
people, so the workshop spaces aren’t
there, the education spaces aren’t there,
the physical healthcare provision isn’t
where it should be. In an ideal world I
wouldn’t want to double prisoners up,
but sentencing policy has driven much
more custody time for longer than we’ve
seen at any other point in history and we
haven’t had a prison-building plan that
keeps pace with that.”
According to these two writers, why is slavery
cruel?
19
th
Century text
......The expression on the faces of all who stepped
on the block was always the same, and told of
more anguish than it is in the power of words to
express. Blighted homes, crushed hopes and
broken hearts was (sic) the sad story to be read in
all the anxious faces. Some of them regarded the
sale with perfect indifference, never making a
motion save to turn from one side to the other at
the word of the dapper Mr. Bryan, that all the
crowd might have a fair view of their proportions,
and then, when the sale was accomplished,
stepping down from the block without caring to
cast even a look at the buyer, who now held all
their happiness in his hands.
21
st
Century Text
For while we wring our hands at the
prospect of our high-street clothing
having been stitched together by
tiny, overworked fingers, we tend to
ignore the child labour going on
under our very noses. We don’t
imagine that young slaves could be
working in our communities and
factories. We struggle to
comprehend that children could be
labouring in our neighbourhoods or
picking our crops (as was discovered
in 2010, when spring onions were
found to have been harvested by
freezing, terrified children, some as
young as nine, on a farm in
Worcester).
How have you practiced A5 skills?
What do you do in an A5 question in
your own words?
What is important?
Explore the parallels between 19th and 21st-century perspectives on criminality and oppression. Through visual and textual comparisons, delve into themes of incarceration, poor conditions in jails, and the cruelty of slavery as portrayed by different writers across centuries.
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A5: Synthesis Practice L/O: to understand how to draw information together coherently Synthesis: this is the combination of components or elements to form a connected whole.
How are these two images similar? Link to the question Quote Explain your opinion linked to what both texts show/suggest
According to these two pictures 19th C and 21st, how do criminals need to be recorded? Image result for criminal mugshot
According to these two writers, why are conditions in jail poor? A 2016 Article from the Guardian 19th Century Extract In this extract Charles Dickens asks us to imagine being a prisoner spending their last night in a cell before execution. We entered the first cell. It was a stone dungeon, eight feet long by six wide, with a bench at the upper end, under which were a common rug, a bible, and prayer-book. An iron candlestick was fixed into the wall at the side; and a small high window in the back admitted as much air and light as could struggle in between a double row of heavy, crossed iron bars. It contained no other furniture of any description. Conceive the situation of a man, spending his last night on earth in this cell. Buoyed up with some vague and undefined hope of reprieve, he knew not why - indulging in some wild and visionary idea of escape. Ministry of Justice figures in January show the prison is running at 166% over the certified normal capacity . Bickers says: I don t feel it is overcrowded, but the prison wasn t built to house 1,600 people, so the workshop spaces aren t there, the education spaces aren t there, the physical healthcare provision isn t where it should be. In an ideal world I wouldn t want to double prisoners up, but sentencing policy has driven much more custody time for longer than we ve seen at any other point in history and we haven t had a prison-building plan that keeps pace with that.
According to these two writers, why is slavery cruel? 21st Century Text For while we wring our hands at the prospect of our high-street clothing having been stitched together by tiny, overworked fingers, we tend to ignore the child labour going on under our very noses. We don t imagine that young slaves could be working in our communities and factories. We struggle to comprehend that children could be labouring in our neighbourhoods or picking our crops (as was discovered in 2010, when spring onions were found to have been harvested by freezing, terrified children, some as young as nine, on a farm in Worcester). 19th Century text ......The expression on the faces of all who stepped on the block was always the same, and told of more anguish than it is in the power of words to express. Blighted homes, crushed hopes and broken hearts was (sic) the sad story to be read in all the anxious faces. Some of them regarded the sale with perfect indifference, never making a motion save to turn from one side to the other at the word of the dapper Mr. Bryan, that all the crowd might have a fair view of their proportions, and then, when the sale was accomplished, stepping down from the block without caring to cast even a look at the buyer, who now held all their happiness in his hands.
How have you practiced A5 skills? What do you do in an A5 question in your own words? What is important?
