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2 Chronicles 19:7 Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice

or partiality or bribery.’

 Many changes occurred in buildings also inventions were made that improved
the quality of life for middle-class and rich families in Victorian times. The
poor still lived in cramped, filthy conditions.

 There are characteristic features of Victorian houses.

Way to Work (Means)

1. Review the previous lessons.

2. Ask the children what they already know about Victorian houses. Show
pictures of Victorian houses and buildings. (If there are some nearby, the

children could be taken to see them.)

Use the information sheet or books to share facts about homes for the rich,

middle class and poor people. Discuss the differences between the rich and
poor, referring to God’s heart for justice. Compare homes today in our
country with poorer nations. (Isaiah 1:17 Isaiah 61:8)

Conditions for poorer people improved eventually in Victorian times as slums

were replaced by better houses. Sewers were built under city streets and
clean water was brought to homes through lead pipes.

3. Talk about the workhouse where the unemployed, sick and old were given a

bed and food. Inmates had to wear uniform and they were given hard, boring
work to do like removing tar from ships’ ropes.

4. Let the children read the information sheets and create a mind-map/flow-
chart to summarise the information about Victorian homes, or write notes, or

write a story in an English lesson about living in a Victorian town.

Eg start of flow-chart Old houses
were made of
straw, stone,
Houses for the rich timber.

Houses for the
poor Building Newer ones were
Victorian materials made of bricks
homes and slate.

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