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London William Blake Objectives: To explore the context of Blakes London To analyse how Blakes choice of language shows his attitudes towards London Challenge question: What is Blakes message? London by William Blake Learning

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London – William Blake Objectives:
To explore the context of Blake’s London
To analyse how Blake’s choice of language shows his attitudes towards London
Challenge question: What is Blake’s message?<br>
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London by William Blake Learning objective: to understand the way Blake creates meaning in London
Success criteria: an annotated poem and notes on class discussion Starter: Consider the following questions, you do not necessarily have to share your answers:

Would you consider yourself religious?
Is there anything - either in these images or elsewhere- that you find testing to your faith?

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What is the effect of placing this bible verse next to these images? Imagine going down to assembly and hearing this passage read, then when walking to your first lesson seeing children begging for food in the corridors – and babies dying of diseases outside your classroom. How would you feel? See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!<br>
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‘Men and women stood cooking their supper — scraps of bread and cold potatoes they had begged, stolen or picked up during the day. Hungry children held out plates and received blows and kicks from their parents when they came too near.’ Dead animals littered the streets. Excrement and rubbish often blocked the drains. Diseases such as diphtheria, cholera and measles flourished. Of every 1,000 children born in early 18th-century London, almost half died before the age of 2. Malnutrition, maternal ignorance, bad water, dirty food, poor hygiene and overcrowding all contributed to this extremely high mortality rate. And if an infant did survive, it then faced the perils of childhood - namely malnourishment and ongoing abuse. Many poor children were dispatched to crowded, backbreaking "workhouses“. 1700s London: Could you maintain your faith in these circumstances? Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.<br>