Market Place Activity: What roles did women play in Tudor society?

This fun and interactive lesson on Tudor women is designed to get your students collaborating and moving around the room. It has been especially commissioned by the History Academy to help address a neglected part of our history which has been often overlooked or hidden. The market activity delves into the diverse roles fulfilled by Tudor queens, mistresses, upper-class figures such as Bess of Hardwick Hall, common women in rural and urban settings, and the significant contributions of Tudor women within the church, preserving the religious traditions of their families.

Once the market place activity has been completed, we have provided a series of tasks to help students scaffold an extended answer on whether Tudor women spend the majority of their time caring for their families.

When you purchase this lesson you will be able to download a 37 slide PowerPoint that includes aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, information slides, historical sources, starters, plenaries, writing frames, templates, missing word activities, graphic organisers, heads and tails, word search, as well as a variety of tasks and activities to suit different abilities. Please see the detailed preview for more information. This lesson has also been uploaded as a PDF.

The aims and objectives of this lesson are:

Theme: Tudor Society
Know: What roles did women play in Tudor society?
Understand: What freedom and rights did women have?
Evaluate: Compare and contrast the roles of women in different classes?
Skills: Source Analysis, Change, Continuity & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: What roles did women play in Tudor society?
Can You Explain: What freedoms and rights did Tudor women have?
Can You Evaluate: How fairly were Tudor women treated by society?

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