History & Geography Knowledge Planner – Autumn 2 (Year 5)

History & Geography – Y5 Guy Fawkes – Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?

Knowledge Geography Skills History Skills

Guy Fawkes (born 13th April, Chronology – Look at when Guy 1570 – died 31st January 1606.) Look at statistics about Catholics martyrs Fawkes was born and died was a member of a group of before and after the English Reformation. (1570-1606) and the date of the English Catholics who planned What does this tell the children about the Gunpowder plot (1605) the failed Gunpowder Plot of persecution suffered by the Catholics? Compare to different eras to 1605. (Enquiry) see when Fawkes was born. (Born during the Elizabethan He was born in York and went era, saw the end of the Tudor to school there. He became a Use maps to identify the UK, Spain and dynasty and beginning of the Catholic and travelled to Spain Netherlands and the travel Guy Fawkes made. Stuarts. This was around 150 to help the Catholic Spanish Colour coordinate the maps to identify which years before the Industrial fight the Protestant Dutch in Revolution (prior learning in Y4) the Eighty Years’ War. were Catholic and which were Protestant and 214 years before Peterloo during Guy Fawkes’ lifetime. (Location) (current learning). It is also He tried to influence the 1,129 years after the Roman Spanish to invade England but How did the land use change? What was the Empire ended (prior learning failed. When he returned to Y4) England he was introduced to Robert Catesby. It was during Events, Causation & Change – this meeting that they planned Children can begin to write in to kill King James the I, a more general and impersonal Protestant king, and bring back terms about why Guy Fawkes a Catholic monarch. They did what he did. planned to do this by blowing up the Houses of Parliament Explain how the actions of Guy with gunpowder. The plan impact of this for the populations? Fawkes and others were directly failed when a letter was sent to (Displacement, trade etc.) related to previous key events Westminster Palace telling the (Conditions and Processes) (English Reformation) and how police of what was going to the development of Bonfire happen. Guy Fawkes was Night became a lasting legacy of found under the Houses of the plot. Parliament and arrested. He admitted his guilt and broke his Use of abstract vocabulary such neck before being hung. as gradual, rapid, important, economic, religious to describe On the 5th November every change. year since 1605 people in Britain have celebrated Bonfire Interpretation – Look at a wider Night, where effigies of Guy variety of interpretations. Fawkes are burnt on the Comment on the accuracy of bonfire and fireworks are set interpretations by using own off to symbolise the knowledge and understanding gunpowder. of topic.