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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Extract information about Henry VIII from portraits and written records.
- Justify their interpretation of Henry VIII using evidence from sources.
- Use sources to make deductions about Henry VIII’s wives and use evidence to support deductions, evaluating his marriage requirements in the context of the Tudor period.
- Make deductions from a range of sources about marriage, power and punishment.
- Identify primary and secondary sources, and begin to explore their reliability.
- Select the relevant evidence required from sources and write an eyewitness account of Elizabeth I’s Worcester Progress.
- Make deductions using inventories about the wealth and position of an ordinary Tudor person.
- Explain how inventories are useful to historians.
- Use their knowledge of inventories, to create a realistic Tudor inventory.
Suggested prior learning
*New* British history 3: How hard was it to invade and settle in Britain?
Get startedUnit overview: What was life like in Tudor England?
Lessons
Lesson 1: Henry VIII – fair ruler or tyrant?
Lesson 2: Why did Henry VIII have so many wives?
Lesson 3: Why was Anne Boleyn executed?
Lesson 4: How did Queen Elizabeth I use a royal progress?
Lesson 5: What can inventories tell us about life in Tudor times?
Lesson 6: What did John Blanke have in his inventory?
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Assessment – History, Y5: What was life like in Tudor England?
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