Market Place Activity: Tudor Entertainment

This fun and interactive lesson aims to enhance students’ understanding of Tudor society by encouraging them to critically evaluate the relationships between various forms of entertainment, wealth and social status. Through a dynamic marketplace activity, students will explore how these elements are interconnected, fostering a deeper understanding of the structure of Tudor society.

Students can explore this investigation collaboratively in groups or independently, utilising strategically placed information slides around the classroom. As they move around the room, they will complete a tailored summary sheet specifically crafted for this lesson, promoting a hands-on and immersive learning experience.

The lesson covers a variety of Tudor entertainments including archery, ball games (including football), board games, tournaments, bull and bear-baiting, cock-fighting, theatre, bowls, skittles, music, dance, gardening and an extra slide if you wish on public executions.

To accommodate diverse learning needs, we have included a range of support activities and tasks. If you wish to simplify or shorten the lesson, you can easily omit certain slides, without losing the overall effectiveness of the lesson.

Upon completing the market place activity with my own classes, we have successfully consolidated what they have learnt through a continuum task on ‘How far were Tudor entertainments linked to social class and wealth?’ This can be followed up with an extended writing task, for which we have provided writing frames, a missing word task in the resource section.

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The aims and objectives of this depth study on Tudor Entertainment t are:

Theme: Tudor Society
Know: How did Tudor people relax and enjoy themselves?
Understand: Which entertainments were popular at this time?
Evaluate: How far was Tudor entertainment linked to wealth and social class?
Skills: SMSC, Change, Continuity & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: How the Tudors relaxed and enjoyed themselves?
Can You Explain: Which entertainments were popular at this time?
Can You Evaluate: How far was Tudor entertainment linked to social class?

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