Life under Elizabeth I MAGAZINE!!!

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Life under Elizabeth I 1558 1603. MAGAZINE!!! Your brief Produce a magazine for the rich people living in Elizabethan England 1558-1603.

1 Life under Elizabeth I MAGAZINE!!! Your brief Produce a magazine for the rich people living in Elizabethan England Use information gathered from lessons and independent research to build your material. Your work should include illustrations and be presented neatly.

2 You can compare the lifestyle of the rich to that of the poor Over the next two weeks your project should include the following pages:- 1.FRONT COVER:- Elizabethan picture and title for magazine 2. CONTENTS PAGE 3.RICH GUIDE TO THE POOR:- Cartoon strip or picture manual with a brief description of each poor group as a result of the Poor Law 4. FOOD CRITIQUE:- Design an Elizabethan Restaurant Menu or Food Diary. 5.ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW:- Review of either, theatre, sport or other rich Elizabethan past time 6.FASHION PAGE:- Write what you think a typical rich Elizabethan person should wear to stay fashionable Your work can be either hand written or word processed

3 Task 1 Instructions Write a guide for the rich to the 1601 poor law. Use what you have learned In lesson and your own independent research You can do this as a cartoon strip or written piece The magazine article title is: Who are the poor and how do we deal with them? Use the questions below to find out who you should be writing about and the research you should be doing Write down at least 3 reasons why the poor were poor? 2 (a) What is a pauper? (b) What is a Vagabond? 3. What was the name of the law passed by the government to control the poor? 4. Who were the helpless poor? 5. How were they treated? 6 Who were the able-bodied poor? 7. Who were the idle poor?

4 TASK 2: AN ELIZABETHAN CHRISTMAS DINNER. Below are different types of food. Please organize them into two separate lists. 1. In the first list write the foods that would be eaten by the poor. 2. In the second list write the foods that would be eaten by the rich. Now use the food items in your Elizabethan rich list to create a Christmas menu for the rich. If you can think of more foods that would be great. Extension: create a menu for the poor and explain why they were similar/different CHRISTMAS PUDDING; SWAN (OATS/MEATS/SPICES) WHALE MEAT GOOSE PEACOCKS MINCE PIES (MEAT) WILD BOAR POTATO ROAST SWAN HUMBLE PIE (ALL THE LEFT OVER MEATS FROM THE RICH PUT INTO A PIE) VEGETABLE SOUP DAIRY PRODUCTS MULLED WINES ALES ROAST HEDEGHOG MARZIPAN (SUGAR AND VEGETABLES

5 TASK 3: How did people have fun in Elizabethan England? SOURCE 7 Bets on Blood Sports:- Sometimes two cocks or chickens would be forced to attack each other after having their beaks sharpened and metal blades attached to their legs. The Elizabethans also liked watching bear baiting. This SOURCE 8 Other facts:- Source 6 A model of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre Most games, sports, festivals would take place on holy days such as Christmas or May Day. People would attend church service and have fun in the afternoon. Hence the name Holiday. At fun fairs people went to lots of markets, ate food and QUESTIONS 1. Look at source 4. Can you find the following: pitching the bar, throwing the sledgehammer, leaping, shin-kicking (with iron tipped boots), sword fighting, cudgels, head stands, feasting, fox hunting, dancing, fireworks (gun fire from a specially built wooden castle). Please label the picture with each entertainment. 2. Using your sources write a paragraph comparing the entertainment of the rich with the poor. 3. Which of these entertainments described in sources 1 7 are still popular today? 4. Which of these would not be allowed today. MAGAZINE TASK People at this time loved violent and dangerous entertainments. Imagine you are a journalist for your Elizabethan newspaper and have to write a report on the cruelty of different entertainments enjoyed at the time. Use these sources and today s lesson to write the article. You should:-

SOURCE 3 Entertainments described by Edwarde Chamberlayne in the seventeenth century In their variety of sports and recreation no nation doth SOURCE excel the 1 English.

The ball they would make out of a pigs bladder full of sawdust and peas.

6 SOURCE 3 Entertainments described by Edwarde Chamberlayne in the seventeenth century In their variety of sports and recreation no nation doth SOURCE excel the 1 English. A public execution in the 1600s SOURCE 2 Morris Dancing in 1600 The citizens and peasants have handball and football. Football is a popular sport and one village or town would take on another. The ball they would make out of a pigs bladder full of sawdust and peas. They would also play skittles, archery, stoolball, colf, boardgames, cudgels, bear-baiting, bull-baiting, bow and arrow, shuttlecock, bowling, leaping, wrestling, pitching the bar and ringing the bells. The nobility and gentry have their parks, horse races, hunting, coursing, fishing, hawking, jousting, cock-fighting, tennis, bowling, billiards, stage plays, masques, dancing, jousting, singing, feasting, and all sorts of musical instruments. SOURCE 4 A woodcut from 1636 showing the Cotswold Olimpick games, started in 1604, then held annually at Whitsuntide SOURCE 5 From Mission s Memoirs and Observations, written in the sixteenth century They tie a rope to the horns of the bull and fasten the other end to an iron ring fixed to a stake, When the sport begins they let loose one of the dogs, The dog runs around the bull, trying to get beneath his belly. Soon the bull beats the ground with his feet. The bull s chief aim is not to gore the dog but to slide a horn under the dog s belly and to throw it so

7 TASK 4: FASHION!

8 SOURCE QUESTIONS 1. Use sources 1 and 5 to write a few sentences about what a rich Elizabethan lady would wear. 2. Use source 6 to write a few sentences about what a rich Elizabethan man would wear. 3. What are the differences in clothes between the people in sources 2, 4 and 5? 4. Look at source 6. What was the Statues of Apparel? 5. How did the Statues of Apparel separate the rich from the poor? 6. Who is the richest and who is the poorest of these people? Extension 7. In Britain today, can you tell how rich people are, just by looking at their clothes? Explain your answer. MAGAZINE TASK Using the information gathered from today s lesson write an article for your magazine on what to wear as a rich Elizabethan, (male or female). Your article should include the following:- 1. A title for your article 2. A drawing of a fashionable Elizabethan 3. Labels on your picture 4. Write between 100 to 150 words on what you think a rich Elizabethan should wear to stay fashionable Extension:- If you have time draw a picture with labels of the opposite sex. For example; if you have already drawn a picture of a female then please draw a labelled diagram of what a male should wear.

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Welcome to Speedy-Feedy s. We have lots of specials for you today. Rich menu or poor menu? Tudors RICH AND POOR BY MICHAEL COLEMAN RICH RICH RICH RICH In Tudor England, there was a massive gap between the rich and poor. If you were poor, you were very poor. You owned hardly anything. If you