1. How did life change for ordinary people 1500-1750?
L/O – To understand that people’s lives in the past were different and to identify how events can affect ordinary lives

2. 1500: Which home would you like to live in?
1. Edward and Elizabeth, a merchant family
2. Thomas and Anne, a yeoman family
3. Will and Mary, a husbandman family

3. 1. Edward and Elizabeth, a merchant family
2. Thomas and Anne, a yeoman family
3. Will and Mary, a husbandman family

7. Moment of Fate 1 – The Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-1540

8. Moment of Fate 2 – Religious changes, bad harvests and food prices, 1580s

9. Moment of Fate 3 – The Civil War, 1642-1649

10. Moment of Fate 4 – Plague, 1665

11. Moment of Fate 5 – The Flying Shuttle, 1733

13. How did life change ?
Introduction: Introduce your family, who they are, what they do for work, how they live.
Divide up the main section into years/events
Did life get better? How? Why?
Did life get worse? How? Why?
What were the worst events?
Conclusion: Overall, did life get better or worse? Make a judgement.