Students are presented with other key facts about Jack and use this to make their own deductions about the killer. These ideas can then serve as the basis for a lively discussion in class.
Students analyse the gruesome “Dear Boss” letter to make deductions about Jack’s character. Was he educated? Was he an egomaniac? Can we trust this evidence?
This worksheet accompanies the first 40 minutes of the video available from Amazon. It provides a good overview of the East End, the victims and the problems faced by the police.
For IB / A-Level historians. Students should have a good understanding of the main issues and personalities relevant to the topic. This worksheet pushes things forward by considering the particular contribution of Tsar Nicholas II’s personality to the situation by looking at some primary source accounts and inviting students to form their own judgement.
In this worksheet, using witness reports from the crime scenes, students build up their own profile of the killer. How old was he? What social background? What witnesses can be trusted? Why are there such discrepancies between the witness reports?
For IB / A-Level historians. This task, which is best set as a homework exercise, involves getting students producing a map of Imperial Russia which highlights the range and location of nationalities, climates, time zones and natural resources. In this way they can reflect on the idea that maybe the problems of Imperial Russia were insoluble. An interactive dimension is provided to this activity if students make use of the Google Earth Tour of Tsarist Russia in 1914.
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