1. What should Elizabeth be remembered for?
To describe important events from Elizabeth I’s reign.
To explain how she was seen by contemporaries.
To assess what quotes from Elizabeth mean.

2. What should Elizabeth
be remembered for?
To describe important events from Elizabeth I’s reign.
To explain how she was seen by contemporaries.
To assess what quotes from Elizabeth mean.
Use the information to place the events of Elizabeth’s reign into the correct chronological order.

3. What should Elizabeth be remembered for?
To describe important events from Elizabeth I’s reign.
To explain how she was seen by contemporaries.
To assess what quotes from Elizabeth mean.
Look at the quotes from Elizabeth and decide for each one which category it fits into:
Strong Monarchy
Religion
Marriage
Privy Councillors

4. What should Elizabeth be remembered for?
To describe important events from Elizabeth I’s reign.
To explain how she was seen by contemporaries.
To assess what quotes from Elizabeth mean.
From what you have learned today about Elizabeth’s early life, write a quote in the style of Elizabeth about an event in her early life.

5. What should Elizabeth be remembered for?
To describe important events from Elizabeth I’s reign.
To explain how she was seen by contemporaries.
To assess what quotes from Elizabeth mean.
Look at the speeches made by Elizabeth. Translate the speech – what does it mean? What issues do the speeches discuss?

6. What did people think about female rulers?
Source 2
“God incline Your Majesty’s heart to marriage, and that he will so bless and send such good success therein that we may see the fruit and child that may come thereof.”
From a speech to the House of Commons, 1563
Source 3
“It would be far better for the Queen and her kingdom if she would take a consort who might relieve her of those labours which are only fit for men.”
Philip II of Spain, 1559
Source 1
“Thou hast set to rule over us a woman, whom nature hath formed to be in subjection to man…Ah, Lord, to take away the empire from a man and give it to a woman seemeth to be an evident token of thine anger towards us Englishmen.”
Thomas Becon, a Norfolk clergyman, 1554
Source 4
“Pray God would send our mistress a husband, and by time a son, that we may hope our prosperity shall have a masculine succession.”
Lord William Cecil, Principal Secretary of State, 1566
Source 5
“There were occasionally women (like Elizabeth) … raised up by divine authority… the nursing mothers of the Church.”
John Calvin, Zurich Letters