Introduction



= = = Welcome Year 6 PLC girls! = This is a pathfinder to help you find information for your assignment, 'Orphans in Literature'. In this topic you will be exploring the way that orphans and children were treated in England during the Industrial Revolution that began in the late 1700s.

The purpose of this pathfinder is to help you locate information to research some of the times and places in which our literary orphans grew up and create a profile for your own imaginary orphan living during the Industrial Revolution. Or you could see if you can find an area in the world where children's right are still not respected and compare those children to the way children were treated in the late 1700s.

Look for the __**IL Tips**__ (Information Literacy) in teal to help you think about your research and complete your assignment!

IL TIP! : You need to think about what sources you are going to use to locate the information you need. Are library books, websites or encyclopedia going to be most helpful? Maybe you could use a combination of all three.

Remember.... keep a record of all the sources you use in your bibliography. You should set this up first! All the sheets including your assignment sheet can also be found here!



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