Edexcel 1H10/B4 - L21 - How did the government respond to poverty?

Lesson 21 in the scheme for Edexcel 1H10/B4 - Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588.
This lesson focuses on attitudes towards the poor and the government response to poverty in Elizabethan England.
The lesson begins with students guessing what the definitions of the different poor would mean, leading to a video introducing the urban poor. Students then utilise source material to make inferences about attitudes, leading to an explanation of the attitudes to the poor in this period. The lesson then focuses on attitudes to the poor, leading to a card sort on the reasons why government actions/attitudes changed over time. Students then examine the legislation used to tackle poverty and explain how significant the impact of this would be. Finally students assess how far poverty had been tackled in the plenary.