Primary Schools Teacher Resources

Activity 3: Telling the Stories: Tasks 1 - 3:

Task 1: People who lived on Henrietta Street

Take a look at these two pictures and one video of people who lived on Henrietta Street in different time periods:

Lady Mary Molesworth<br />
Image ©National Trust Images/Derrick E. Witty — Lady Mary Molesworth
Image ©National Trust Images/Derrick E. Witty

Children on Henrietta Street<br />
Courtesy of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland — Children on Henrietta Street
Courtesy of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

Pick one person from each picture or video and discuss the following:

What do you think they are thinking and feeling in that moment?
What sort of personality do you think they have?
How do you think these people are the same? How do you think they are different?
If these people got in a time machine and were able to meet, what do you think they would say to each other? Do you think they would be friends? Why/why not?

Task 2: Letters from the Past

Write a letter from Lady Molesworth to a friend telling them about Henrietta Street.
Write a letter from one of the children in the tenement photo to a friend in the country telling them about Henrietta Street

Task 3: A Day in the Life

Tell the story of a day in the life of one of the people pictured in Task 1, from their point of view. You can use evidence to help make your story real. You can do this through writing, drawing or painting a picture or a cartoon strip, acting, singing, or dancing.