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teaching guide xplore the Efascinating story of Katherine Howard and life at Henry the Eighth’s court through the eyes of maid of honour, Eliza Rose From much-loved TV historian, and Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, watch lucy introduce the story! bit.ly/ElizaRosetrailer QUICK START IDEAS! • Learn about Henry VIII’s wives Using extracts from the novel, discuss and make notes on how each of Henry VIII’s wives are portrayed and thought of by those at court. Individually or in groups, create a giant poster about the wives. • Life at Court Make a list of the different roles of people at Tudor court in the book and what jobs they do. Choose one and write a series of diary entries from their point of view • Make a Tudor masque! Chapter 18 describes Eliza taking part in a Tudor masque. As a class, write your own Tudor Masque. Pick an event from the reign of Henry VIII and assign different parts to each group of pupils. Some pupils can provide the music, using recorders or any instruments they can play. After practising, the whole class perform the Tudor Masque, perhaps even in assembly to the rest of the school or to parents one morning. • Execute or spare Katherine? Using the novel, make a list of reasons why Katherine Howard should and shouldn’t be executed. As a class, script and act out the trial of Katherine with cases for defence and prosecution. Cast your vote! Read on for more activity and discussion ideas! t @LucyWorsley @KidsBloomsbury #ElizaRose Bloomsbury.com 2 Teaching notes created by history teacher and author Matthew Howorth The King’s Great Matter AIM ACTIVITY IDEAS DISCUSSION IDEAS To understand the importance • Individually or in groups, • Why was it so important for of a male heir to Henry VIII create a booklet, PowerPoint Henry to have a male heir? presentation or giant poster on Henry’s wives. • Did Henry marry for love or the need for an heir? • Draw a table of Henry’s wives and include the • Which was Henry’s following key details: favourite wife and why? when they became queen; KEY QUESTION Why were some of Henry’s any children they had; what • wives executed and others happened to them and why. Why did Henry VIII have not? so many wives? • Create a short rap, chant or song about Henry’s wives. You can either make it serious or funny! • Which wife was Henry’s favourite? State who you FURTHER RESEARCH USING THE BOOK think it was and then explain why. http://tudorhistory.org/wives/ The book discusses a number of Henry’s queens: Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and of course Katherine Howard. Using extracts from the novel, discuss and make notes on how each of the wives are portrayed and thought of by those at court. Teaching notes: Henry was not meant to be king: families and allies and it could his older brother Arthur was going have been disastrous for England to inherit the throne but he died if Henry had executed them. Anne The Wars of the Roses had raged shortly after marrying the Spanish Boleyn and Katherine Howard did for 30 years, between 1455 and princess, Catherine of Aragon. not have such powerful ties. 1485, before Henry’s father, Henry Henry was being prepared for a Tudor, united the country to career in the church but when become the first Tudor monarch: Arthur died, this all changed. Henry VII. The lack of a male heir So Henry would have realised for Henry VIII could result in an the importance of having more outbreak of war again between than one male heir in the line of rival families. succession. Although at the time of the novel I imagine Henry got away with Henry had a son, Edward, he was executing those wives that he a sickly child and Henry needed could, without landing England to have other sons; after all, he in a war. Catherine of Aragon was only king himself because his and Anne of Cleves had powerful older brother Arthur had died. t @LucyWorsley @KidsBloomsbury #ElizaRose Bloomsbury.com Teaching notes created by history teacher and author Matthew Howorth Tudor fashion AIM ACTIVITY IDEAS DISCUSSION IDEAS To understand how the • Using passages from the • How much has fashion different classes dressed in book, write a description changed since the 1500’s? Tudor times of the king, queen, a courtier, nobleman and • Do you think Tudor clothes maid of honour – imagine were comfortable to wear? you are seeing them for the first time. • Draw and label some of the KEY QUESTION characters from the book. If you could be any character How did the different sections • in the book, which would FURTHER RESEARCH of Tudor society dress and act? you be and why? Would you do anything differently to http://primaryfacts.com/1714/ how they act in the story? tudor-clothes-costumes-and- fashion/ • Design your own Tudor wardrobe. USING THE BOOK • Investigate the makeup that Tudor women wore. There are many references to fashion and clothes in Eliza Rose. Make a list of the different things that Eliza wears. Contrast this with what Anne of Cleves and Katherine wear. Also, take notes of what Ned, who is not a lord or a noble, wears. t @LucyWorsley @KidsBloomsbury #ElizaRose Bloomsbury.com Teaching notes created by history teacher and author Matthew Howorth Beauty in Tudor times AIM ACTIVITY IDEAS DISCUSSION IDEAS To investigate what • Describe Katherine and • Look at paintings of famous characteristics the Tudors Eliza and compare their people from Tudor times; viewed as beautiful physical similarities and why do many of them look differences. physically big/strong? • Look at Holbein’s picture • Are the paintings good of Anne of Cleves; how or not? would you describe her? • Why did famous people KEY QUESTION have paintings done? Were Tudor ideas and views of beauty different to ours? FURTHER RESEARCH http://www.npg.org.uk/ USING THE BOOK collections/explore/by-period/ tudor.php There are many references to how people should look, especially women: Aunt Margaret frequently reminds Eliza that she is too thin; Eliza herself references her figure and notes towards the end of the book that she is starting to have more curves; the characters discuss the portrait of Anne of Cleves; and Henry has his own impression of the German queen! Teaching notes: Strength and power were evident in many portraits; for instance, a picture of a strong and powerful Although Henry did not find monarch meant that England was Anne of Cleves attractive, her strong and powerful. The strength portrait, at least to our modern and power of a country was standards, does not make her look reflected in its monarch. unattractive. Also, there were no other reports at the time about her being described as ‘ugly’. Perhaps she just wasn’t Henry’s type! t @LucyWorsley @KidsBloomsbury #ElizaRose Bloomsbury.com Teaching notes created by history teacher and author Matthew Howorth The English Reformation AIM ACTIVITY IDEAS DISCUSSION IDEAS To understand how and • Make three columns: Heir; Power; • Why wouldn’t the Pope Money. List reasons why each of why there was an English grant Henry a divorce from them were important to Henry. reformation Catherine of Aragon? • Research the Act of Supremacy and Act of Succession; make a list • Which was the most of their main points and state why important reason for the they were so important. English Reformation: the need for an heir, money or • Research how wealthy the church was at the start of Henry’s reign. power? KEY QUESTION What role did the church have in society other than the spiritual • Was Henry right to make Why did Henry make himself concerns of the community? himself Head of the Church? Present an argument for Head of the Church in England? • Write a speech for Henry, explaining to Parliament about each side. the Act of Supremacy, then act How concerned was Henry it out; Parliament can question • the fearsome monarch without with religion? the threat of punishment, though! • Research Henry’s stance on FURTHER RESEARCH USING THE BOOK religion; what were his views? • Find out what former church http://faculty.history.wisc.edu/ The book mentions Anne buildings and property were lost sommerville/361/361-08.htm Boleyn a number of times; to the church in the dissolution she was the queen Henry of the monasteries but are still http://.primaryhomeworkhelp. was finally able to marry after here today as houses or hotels. co.uk/tudors/religion.htm splitting from the Pope and Rome. His continued search for a male heir saw him wed Jane Seymour, Anne of Teaching notes: Making himself Head of the Church they gambled, drank, cavorted (with help from Archbishop of with women and kept riches for Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and themselves. Cleves, Katherine Howard and Henry made himself Head of the Thomas Cromwell) meant Henry Church for three main reasons; to get Catherine Parr. could make Parliament pass his own By gaining control of the church in an heir; for money; and for power. law and divorce Catherine. England, Henry had more control than the Pope over religion in the The Pope would not grant Henry a Due to expensive wars, Henry needed country. This gave Henry more power divorce for a few reasons: Charles V, money and the church had loads! By in his own country and meant people the Holy Roman Emperor, had sacked dissolving the monasteries, he got could not take the Pope’s authority Rome and held the Pope almost a his hands on huge amounts of land, more seriously than the king’s.
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