Y5/6 (A): British history 5: What was life like in Tudor England?
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Extract information about Henry VIII from sources.
- Explain their interpretation of Henry VIII using evidence from sources.
- Use secondary sources to make deductions about Henry VIII’s wives and choose evidence to support their deductions, evaluating his marriage requirements in the context of the Tudor period.
- Reflect on the role of absolute power in the Tudor period.
- Describe why royal progresses are considered propaganda.
- Consider the reliability of primary sources.
- Write an eyewitness account of Elizabeth I’s Worcester Progress.
- Use evidence from the inventories to support their interpretations of a Tudor person’s life and explain how inventories are useful to historians.
- Use their knowledge of inventories, to create a realistic Tudor inventory.
Suggested prior learning
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Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: Henry VIII – fair ruler or tyrant?
- To interpret sources to understand more about the character of Henry VIII.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: Why did Henry VIII have so many wives?
- To explore why Henry VIII had many wives using secondary sources.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Why was Anne Boleyn executed?
- To make deductions about power and punishment using a range of sources.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: How did Queen Elizabeth I use a royal progress?
- To explore the use of propaganda by a Tudor monarch.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: What can inventories tell us about life in Tudor times?
- To make deductions about people in Tudor England using inventories.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 6: What did John Blanke have in his inventory?
- To create an inventory for a person from the Tudor times.
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