Tudors

This morning, we would like you to complete at least one crossword, quiz or wordsearch from the links below. Some of the topics we haven’t covered in a lot of detail so you might want to spend a bit of time finding out more about them once you have completed an activity.

12 July 2011

Tudor Life: Food

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Links about food in Tudor times.

A Tudor kitchen: A Tudor feast would consist of chicken, rabbit, pork, beef and lamb. A common way of cooking meat in Tudor times was on a spit over an open fire. As well as a spit many kitchens had charcoal burning stoves and special ovens for making bread. There were no electrical kitchen gadgets so everything had to be done by hand. The Tudors believed that raw fruit and vegetables made you ill, and this is why they were not popular. Puddings and sweets, however, were very popular.
Growing vegetables on a Tudor farm: Footage of a recreated Tudor garden, showing some vegetables grown and an explanation for why there are no potatoes.
Tudor food preservation: Recreation of a Tudor kitchen with mother and children at work, preparing ham and beating butter.
Woodlands Junior School – Tudor Food
The Tudors.org.uk – Tudor Food
MAPE – Food in Tudor Times
Birmingham Museums – Tudor Food
Birmingham Museums – Test your knowledge of Tudor food!

13 June 2011

Theatre in Tudor Times

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Use these links to help you research the theatre in Tudor times.

20 May 2011

Homework Help: Henry’s Wives

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Here are some links that might be useful for your task this week. Remember , there are also some useful sites listed here.

Task 3:

This week we have looked at Henry’s wives and thought about each of their lives. We know the reasons Henry married each of them and the ways in which they separated. We would like you to create a dating webpage for a either a new wife for Henry, or for one of the wives he had. You need to include a portrait and some key information to help him make a decision (likes and dislikes, ambitions, age, interests, family background, where they come from etc.)

Links:

1 May 2011

The Tudors: A List Of Useful Web Sites

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General Tudor sites you might find useful during this topic:

The Tudors
Tudor Site
Henry VIII and The Tudors
Fascinating Tudor Facts
Tudor and Elizabethan Times
Tudor England
Tudor Portraits
Tudor Cyberhunt
Life for Tudor women
Hands on Tudors – tasks and activities to explore

1 May 2011

Tudor Monarchs Web Trail

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This is the site you need for your Tudor Monarchs research task: Woodlands Junior School – Tudors

Tudor England had six kings and queens. Find out three things about each of them.

Henry VII (1485 – 1509)

Henry VIII (1509 – 1547)

Edward VI (1547 – 1553)

Jane Grey (1553 – 1553)

Mary I (1553 – 1558)

Elizabeth I (1558 – 1603)

Explore some of the websites listed on the “The Tudors: A List Of Useful Web Sites” page of Mr Pitts’ website and make notes about any interesting things you find out on the back of this page.

23 April 2009

Tudor Research Task

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This is the site you need for your Tudor research task: Woodlands Junior School – Tudors