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home-learning

Off With Her

Head

Week Three – Session One

Key Vocabulary

Thomas

CromwellLady-in-Waiting

Thomas Cromwell

was King Henry’s

advisor. He would

have helped King

Henry make

important decisions.

A lady-in-waiting or court

lady is a female personal

assistant. They would

help a royal woman or a

high-ranking

noblewoman.

Henry & Anne Boleyn

We have now spent some

time examining Henry

VIII’s six wives. The most

famous and most

controversial wife was

Anne Boleyn.

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of King

Henry VIII.

Henry fell head over heels in love with Anne

Boleyn. The love was so strong that Henry

divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

They married on 25 January 1533, at York

Palace, London.

Anne grew up in the family home of Hever

Castle in Kent and was a young and

beautiful lady-in-waiting to the former

queen, Catherine of Aragon. She gave birth

to the future Queen Elizabeth I.

Anne Boleyn

Watch the above video clip which will explain how Anne

Boleyn was the daughter of the Earl of Wiltshire. She

was born in Kent but her father sent her to the French

court to learn the ways of royalty. Anne was feisty and as

a result of her time in France she became musical, a

wonderful dancer and very popular.

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z3m6n39

During the winter of 1521, Anne joined Henry’s court. Henry fell in love with her but he was a

married man and the Roman Catholic Church would not give him a divorce. Henry wanted a new

wife so that she could give him a son and heir to the throne. Anne Boleyn was lady-in-waiting to

Catherine of Aragon. She knew it would take some time for Henry to secure a divorce, so she kept

Henry interested with her love letters. Anne Boleyn waited six years for Henry to work out how to

divorce Catherine. The Roman Catholic Church had refused to let him divorce, so Henry set up his

own church which said he could be divorced. Finally he was free to marry Anne Boleyn.

Task 1

In your home learning book, write a paragraph about how

King Henry VIII met Anne Boleyn and how she became to

be his wife. Include details of why is was difficult for them

to get married.

Steps to Success

-I understand more fully the relationship between

Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.

-I can write a paragraph about King Henry VIII and

Anne Boleyn’s relationship.

-I can write a paragraph about how Anne Boleyn

came to be beheaded.

Anne Boleyn

Now watch the second clip. Her marriage to Henry VIII was met

with mixed reception. The Pope had banned Henry from the

Roman Catholic Church but Anne Boleyn was right behind

Henry’s new Church of England and was known as a reformist.

Anne gave birth to a daughter who was called Elizabeth, later to

be called Queen Elizabeth I. Henry still wanted a son, and

despite the fact that there were many more pregnancies, none of

the children survived.

Henry was not happy and his problem solver, Thomas Cromwell, believed that Henry should get rid of Anne Boleyn,

but warned that a second divorce would be unwise. Anne Boleyn had been faithful to King Henry but Cromwell was

not going to let the truth get in the way of a good story. In May 1536, Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Five men, including her brother, were accused of being her boyfriends and they were executed. After just three years

of marriage, Anne Boleyn was tried and found guilty of adultery. She was given the choice of being burned or

beheaded. She chose to be beheaded.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zrtpyrd

Task 2

In your home learning book, write a paragraph about the

problems that King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn had, that

led to her death.

Steps to Success

-I understand more fully the relationship between

Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.

-I can write a paragraph about King Henry VIII and

Anne Boleyn’s relationship.

-I can write a paragraph about how Anne Boleyn

came to be beheaded.

Plenary

Read these accounts of eye-witnesses at

the time of Anne Boleyn’s beheading.

What do you think Anne Boleyn was

feeling in the moments before she died?

Off With Her

Head

Week Three – Session Two

Key Vocabulary

Historical

sources

Hampton

Court Palace

Historical sources are

original sources that

contain important

historical information.

An original Tudor

Palace that is

situated in Surrey.

Life in Tudor Times

Historians have built up their understanding of what life was like

in the Tudor times through a variety of different sources.

One of the main sources of information could be taken from

paintings that artists produced during this historical time.

Life in Tudor Times

Food

Meals in Tudor times consisted almost

wholly of meat. People ate very few

vegetables. Tudor people drank beer or

wine and ate and drank from pewter

plates and mugs.

Pewter – a

mental made

of tin and

copper.

Life in Tudor Times

Fashion

In Tudor times, men wore decorated doublets (jackets)

with peascod bellies (rounded front) and slashed trunks

(short trousers with cuts in the fabric).

Women wore fancy kirtles (overskirts) over wooden

frames called farthingales, with high collars. Women's

fashion favoured white faces so they painted white lead

on their faces. Both genders might wear elaborate ruffs.

Life in Tudor Times

Houses

Rich lords built huge mansions in the countryside. One

famous Tudor mansion is Hampton Court. The long

gallery ran along the entire length of the house, where

people could walk or practise sword-fighting when the

weather was bad. Keeping warm was a major

consideration and Tudor mansions had many chimneys,

for the many fires.

The lord would have a parlour, luxuriously panelled,

with painted ceilings and tapestries hanging on the

wall, and with high-sided dark wooden chairs. The

richest families might even have a carpet on the floor!

Life in Tudor Times

Gardens

The hedges and flower beds in a Tudor garden would be

elaborately laid out in a pattern called a 'Tudor knot' or

even a maze.

Life in Tudor Times

Entertainment

Tudor entertainments were energetic and included

activities such as jousting, hunting, dancing and sports

such as tennis.

Task

Can you fill in the table to compare life in the Tudor times with modern day life? There

is a template for you to use on the website, or you can create your own table in your

home learning books.

Steps to Success

-I can identify the key features of

court life during Tudor times.

-I can identify characteristics of

Tudor households and clothing.

-I can compare life in Tudor

times with modern day.

When you have completed this

task, please send to your

teacher for marking.

Plenary

Convince me that it is better to live in Modern

day rather than the Tudor Era.

Off With Her

Head

Week three – Session Three

Key Vocabulary

Vagrant Execution

A person without a

settled home or

regular work who

wanders from place to

place and lives by

begging.

Carrying out of a

sentence of death on a

convicted person.

Crime in Tudor Times

In Tudor times, there were no police. Crime – mainly stealing – was widespread, as many

poor people could not afford to pay for increasingly expensive food. However, punishments

were harsh, in the belief that it would stop others from committing the same crime. New

punishments were created to be even more terrifying than before.

Because most people did not travel far in Tudor England, anyone who did was often treated

with suspicion. Travelling actors had to have a license, otherwise they were breaking the

law. Tudor London experienced some of the worst crime. It attracted many vagrants and

people looking for work. The Tudor rich and Tudor poor lived apart, and a poor person in a

wealthy area was often thought to be a criminal.

Public Execution

Public executions were extremely popular and people

would wait for hours to watch them, often taking their

children with them! Some historians have estimated

that about 70,000 people were executed during the

reign of Henry VIII.

Vagrancy (being homeless) was a crime and punished

by being whipped, or even hanged. Many people were

afraid that all vagrants were criminals and

murderers. Stealing was considered a serious Tudor

crime, and people could be punished for just stealing a

bird’s egg. Stealing even a small amount of money

could mean the death penalty.

Tudor crime & punishment

Tudor crime & punishment

Tudor crime & punishment

Tudor crime & punishment

Tudor crime & punishment

Tudor crime & punishment

Task

On the school website there is a document entitled ‘Tudor

People and Their Punishments Matching Cards’. Can you

match the Tudor criminal with their crime, the method of

punishment and what this punishment looks like?

Steps to Success

- I understand the crimes and

punishments that would have taken

place in the Tudor times.

- I can compare Tudor punishments

with what would happen now in the

Modern day.

Plenary

Why was torture such a big part of the justice system in the

Tudor period?

What did the Tudors (mainly the rich and wealthy people) see

as the most worrying crimes?

How does Tudor crime punishments compare with how we

punish people in the 21st Century?