1. What is the secret of successful note- taking?

2. What are your notes like? Easy to read ……………….…………Hard to read Brief to the point …….….……………Too detailed Easy to understand ….............…Hard to understand Well organised ……………………Poorly organised Pages numbered/labelled ………………No system Easy to learn from …….……Difficult to learn from Well abbreviated …………..…….No abbreviations Important ideas stand out..........Not easy to see ideas In my own words ………...……..Chunks copied out

3. What was England like in 1485? TBAT develop note-taking skills Research and evaluate what social- economic conditions in late C15th England  Learning objectives  Key words: arable enclosure primogeniture

4.  Your task Here are some commons words / phrase we will use in this course. Create an ‘Abbreviations’ page in your folder and produce abbreviations for these words. Here are some commons words / phrase we will use in this course. Create an ‘Abbreviations’ page in your folder and produce abbreviations for these words. Henry VIIICatholicProtestanttherefore FranceSpainRomeKing QueenPrinceParliamentReformation Wars of RosesThomas WolseyArmadaDissolution of the Monasteries

5. Life on a farm in early modern Europe. How has the artist depicted rural life? How similar / different do you think life was?

6. The author of this book imagines what a Tudor person would make of life in modern-day Britain and goes on to summarise some of its key characteristics. You have 10 minutes to read the extract and then in teams try to summarise what would a Tudor person would typically see as he looked around England at the start of Henry VII’s reign. You may wish to use a pair of glasses as the template for your ideas. The team with the best ideas wins.

7.  Your task Read Ferriby, p.2-4 and take notes on these aspects of late C15th society: Read Ferriby, p.2-4 and take notes on these aspects of late C15th society: Population sizes & distribution Population sizes & distribution Farming characteristics Farming characteristics Cloth industry Cloth industry Structure of society Structure of society

8. Read an extract from Christopher Hibbert’s ‘The English: A Social History’ (p.171-2) How far do you agree with his description of England in the early Tudor period?  Extension task

9. You are Henry VII. Make a list of the features of society at the start of your reign which make it easy for you to govern. In a different colour, make a list of things that are likely to provide challenges in the future. Write a paragraph in your notes summarising the key features of society at the start of Henry’s reign. Refer to the strengths and weaknesses and decide how stable society was.

10.  Homework

11. What was England like in 1485? TBAT develop note-taking skills Research and evaluate what social- economic conditions in late C15th England  Learning objectives  Key words: arable enclosure primogeniture