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PowerPoint (with 10 slides) and four Word Documents that examine the problem of faction during the mid-Tudor period. The lesson focuses on the factional fighting involving Thomas Seymour, the Duke of Somerset, Thomas Wriothesley and the Duke of Northumberland under King Edward VI. Under Queen Mary I the lesson considers factional fighting involving Stephen Gardner and William Paget.

Activities include

• Quick recall quiz focused on factional fighting at the end of Henry VIII’s reign.
• Discussion based activity on whether factional fighting was more likely to occur during the reign of a child monarch or a female monarch.
• Source analysis exercise on a sermon by Bishop Hugh Latimer on the potential problems of a child monarch.
• A reading and comprehension task on why Mary’s choice of councillors gave rise to faction.
• A reading and comprehension task on specific examples of factional fighting with a table to complete on causes, consequences and some evaluation on the danger each example posed.
• A ranking task on the relative dangers posed by the examples.
• A matching task on the key figures in factional conflict with pupils required to judge whether they emerged as winners or losers.
• Source evaluation task on the strengths and weaknesses of Edward VI’s chronicle as a source for historians.
• Source evaluation task in the style of an OCR exam question. Could be used as group work.
• Summary activity which requires students to connect key figures with colour coded and labeled arrows to demonstrate the nature of their relationship.

Designed for the teaching of OCR History Y106 The Early & Mid Tudors.
Duration: 2x 1hr lessons approx.
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