Power & The People: How Did Henry VIII Change The Church?

AQA GCSE history lesson for The Power & The People thematic unit. In this lesson we look at the causes of the reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries.

We start with a game of Historabble. The pupils need to come up with a wining historical term or person from the unit of study. Highest scoring word wins! We then look at Martin Luther’s protest before looking at the various problems that henry faced in 1530. The pupils rate the significance of Henry’s problems and explain why they have scored them that way. We then look at Thomas Cromwell as a key person before looking at the road to the reformation where the pupils create a diagram in their books with annotations explaining how the reformation started. We then look at the dissolution of the monasteries. the pupils complete an angry scale on the different events of the dissolution from the perspective of the catholic clergy. We then tackle a 16 mark question. There is some guidance for the pupils on how to tackle the question too.

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