1. What do you understand by the title ‘Head of the Household’?
Objective:
To understand the roles men and women were expected to play in Elizabethan England.
Starter:
What do you understand by the title ‘Head of the Household’?
Write a sentence explaining what YOU THINK this phrase means.

2. The Head of The Household
What does it mean?

3. Who is the Head of these households? What qualities do they have?
WHY?
What qualities do they have?

4. As you watch the following clips, make a list of the qualities that Tudor people thought made an ideal man or woman.
Ideal Tudor Man
Ideal Tudor Woman

5. Tudor Men and Women
Clip 1
Clip 2
Clip 3

6. Tudor Man were expected to be:
Tudor Woman were expected to be:
Based on this new understanding of Tudor Men and Women, WHO do you think would be the head of a Tudor household?

7. A Letter from Macbeth to his Wife
Her husband has been away for a long time and has performed well in battle.
He is about to return home when she receives the following letter from him:

8. “The witches met me on the day of my victory in battle, and I have since learned that they have supernatural knowledge. When I tried desperately to question them further, they vanished into thin air. While I stood spellbound, messengers from the king arrived and greeted me as the thane of Cawdor, which is precisely how the weird sisters had saluted me before calling me ’the future king!' I thought I should tell you this news, my dearest partner in greatness, so that you could rejoice along with me about the greatness that is promised to us. Keep it secret, and farewell.

9. “The witches met me on the day of my victory in battle, and I have since learned that they have supernatural knowledge. When I tried desperately to question them further, they vanished into thin air. While I stood spellbound, messengers from the king arrived and greeted me as the thane of Cawdor, which is precisely how the weird sisters had saluted me before calling me ’the future king!' I thought I should tell you this news, my dearest partner in greatness, so that you could rejoice along with me about the greatness that is promised to us. Keep it secret, and farewell.
Question and Answer
In your books write 3 questions for Lady Macbeth to find out how she reacts to her husband’s letter and what she thinks he should do.

10. Question and Answer
A Pupil begins by asking ONE of their questions.
Say the name of the student they would like to answer this question.
The chosen pupil answers the question IN ROLE as Lady Macbeth.
That student then asks one of their questions and says the name of another student to answer it.

11. To explore the roles men and women were expected to play in Elizabethan England.