Year 8 The Tudors: The English Reformation and the Elizabethan Age
Lesson Outline
Part One: Pre-Elizabethan Age
Lesson One: Introduction to the Tudors
Lesson Two: Henry VIII and religious changes
Lesson Three: The rise of Protestantism and Martin
Luther
Lesson Four: Edward VI and religious changes
Mid Assessment
Lesson Five: Bloody Mary and religious changes
Part Two: Elizabethan Age
Lesson Six and Seven: An introduction to Elizabeth
Lesson Eight and Nine: Life for the rich and the poor
during the Elizabethan Age
Lesson Ten, Eleven and Twelve: Religious changes
and events during the Elizabethan Age
GCSE ALERT! If you take GCSE
History, one of your topics will
be The Elizabethan Age!
Homework project for this unit:
The Elizabethan Age refers to the period which
Queen Elizabeth I ruled from 1558-1603.
The Elizabethan Age is such an important unit to
study, as this will be one of your GCSE topics.
Therefore, for your homework you need to provide
a research folder containing the following:

What was life like for the rich and the
poor during the Elizabethan Age? (How
did the rich and the poor live, what clothes
did they wear and what jobs did they do?)

How did Queen Elizabeth deal with
religion? (What was the 1559 Religious
Settlement, how did she try and keep
Catholics and Protestants happy?)

What was the Spanish Armada?

Entertainment during the Elizabethan
Age (bear and bull baiting, cockfighting,
hunting, archery, dancing, tennis and
theatres)
Milestone Focus for the unit and assessments:
All milestones are assessed
Assessments:
Mid-assessment set 1: How far can the period 15091553 be seen as significant?
Mid-assessment set 2+3: What were the religious
changes made by Henry VIII, Edward VI and Martin
Luther and why were they significant?
End Assessment: How far did Elizabeth’s ‘middle-way’
work?
Hot Topic Words
Henry VIII
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Reformation
Religion
Heir
Monasteries
Roman Catholic Church
Protestants
Martin Luther
‘’95 thesis’’
Excommunication
Priests
Clergy
Heretic
Devout
Tithes
Persecutions
Propaganda
Privy Council
Patronage
1559 Religious Settlement
Act of Uniformity
Act of Supremacy
Mary Queen of Scots
The Northern Uprising
The Ridolfi Plot
The Throckmorton Plot
The Babington Plot
Spanish Armada
Year 8 The Tudors: The English Reformation and the Elizabethan Age
Unit summary: This unit will focus in detail about religion during the Tudor
period. You will be looking carefully at the different Tudor monarchs and
how they all dealt with the issue of religion. You will consider why their
actions were significant (important) and how they all contributed to an event
called The English Reformation. You will then focus on society and religious
events during the Elizabeth Age; Queen Elizabeth I was the final monarch in
the Tudor period.
Literacy Focus:
 Check spelling, punctuation and grammar
 Use key historical terminology
 Always use detailed evidence
 Evaluate the evidence and how it supports your view
 Use quotes / features from the sources to support your view
 Keep your evidence relevant to what the question is asking you
How do you achieve your target milestone?
Capable
Emerging
Developing
Students can describe
clearly the religious
change and continuity
across the Tudor
period.
Students can begin to explain the
religious change and continuity
across the Tudor period.
Students can describe
why different
individuals and
monarchs can be seen
as significant.
Students select and
display information
using good level of
evidence and
description.
Students can describe
key religious features
of past societies
Students can begin to explain in
detail why different individuals and
monarchs can be seen as
significant.
Students can begin to recognise
which individual is more important
in terms of religious developments
and why.
Students can construct information
in a relevant and informative way
using a good level of explanation
and evidence.
Students can recognise and begin
to explain the extent of diversity
and religious features of past
societies.
Expert
Students can analyse and begin to
evaluate the extent of religious change and
continuity across the Tudor period and reach
a well explained conclusion about this.
Students think critically about the extent of
change.
Students can evaluate in detail the extent of
religious change and continuity across the Tudor
period and evaluate the significance of this.
Students reach well substantiated conclusions
about the extent of change which is well reasoned
and evidenced.
Students can start to study the significance
of historical events and begin to make
some evaluated judgements about how far
an event / individual can be considered
significant in terms of religious change.
Students can study the significance of historical
events, and evaluate at length the significance of
events, people. Students can communicate in an
evaluative way, different interpretations of how the
significance of events / individuals have changed
according to different perspectives.
Students can substantiate explanations
with their own findings and communicate
them in appropriate and structured ways.
Students use a good level of evaluation
and critical thinking to their work.
Students can analyse and begin to
evaluate the extent of religious change and
diversity in past societies.
Students can build well evaluated conclusions
throughout and communicate them in appropriate
and structured ways.
Students think critically in order to address the
question / enquiry. Students show original thought
and ideas whilst evaluating at length.
Students can analyse and evaluate diversity and
the extent of its significance in past societies.