Background:

1. Background: • Teaching discipline: Social Studies • World civilizations • Grade 9 • Education-focused questions: • Your majesty, what do you believe students today need to know to be a successful leader? • Your majesty, which academic areas do students today need to excel the most in to thrive in society? • Your majesty, as a ruler in the 16th century, what technological devices do you see as the most beneficial for students today?

2. Henry VIII A Webquest Michelle McNally

3. Introduction:“Henry the 8th I Am” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUb3NWp942s

4. The Six Wives • Catherine of Aragon • Anne Boleyn • Jane Seymour • Ann of Cleves • Katherine Howard • Katherine Parr

5. My Interview with King Henry VIII • History Teacher: Your majesty, what do you believe students today need to know to be a successful leader? • King Henry VIII: students today must understand that a successful ruler establishes his presence in the world. He takes control and eliminates all enemies that threaten his status. Know how to utilize your resources and surround yourself with a strong team who will research for you.

6. My Interview with King Henry VIII • Rationale: the king had many advisors, such as Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell, who worked around the clock to put the king in the right direction during his reign. He was often at war with France or Spain, and put a lot into building the English Navy. Also, within his own kingdom he would not tolerate insolence. Anyone who disobeyed the orders of King Henry VIII was executed for treason.

7. My Interview with King Henry VIII • History Teacher: Your majesty, which academic areas do students today need to excel the most in to thrive in society? • King Henry VIII: Students today must have a well-rounded educational experience. Not only must they learn the basics of reading, writing, and math; they must go beyond that to study the arts in language, logic, and expression (music and art). It is not enough to just understand how to do something. You need to be able to explain why it is done.

8. My Interview with King Henry VIII • Rationale: Henry had a love for the arts. He was a known musician and composer. However, he received education in all academic areas of the time including languages, grammar, theology, history, rhetoric, logic, philosophy, arithmetic, logic, literature, geometry, and music; astronomy, navigation and cartographer. His high intelligence allowed him to succeed in many advances for the British.

9. My Interview with King Henry VIII • History Teacher: Your majesty, as a ruler in the 16th century, what technological devices do you see as the most beneficial for students today? • King Henry VIII: Students today would benefit from any form of technology that allows research and communication to be done much faster than it was in my day. This would include anything provided by the Internet as well as portable devices such as a cellular phone. Students need to do their research before they jump right in and act. Acting without thinking will only get you into trouble.

10. My Interview with King Henry VIII • Rationale: in the 16th century, the king could rely on his advisors and communication by letter writing to gain information. It was a long process that sometimes provided inaccurate information. For example, the miscommunication prior to meeting Anne of Cleves led to his divorcing her. If he lived in our time, he would most likely search for her on the Internet to obtain a picture of her before making his decision to wed her. He called her a “Flanders mare”.

11. Your Task: • Using the provided websites as resources, develop a PowerPoint presentation describing King Henry VIII in a given time in his life. • Each group of students will be given a time period to research that includes a different wife in each time period. • How did his political views develop? His religious values change? His standards in choosing a wife? How were his heirs effected? How did his health play a part?

12. Process • Six groups of three • Book researcher • Internet researcher • Video researcher • Areas to touch on • Who was the king’s wife at the time, and how did she become his wife? • Who was the king’s most trusted allies, advisors, or politicians? • What was the king like at the time (i.e.: personality)? • What gains did the king make for Great Britain during this time? • What were some issues presented during this time?

13. Process • Share your perspective • What do you think of the wife? • What do you think of the king? • Graphic Organizer—click on hyperlink • http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/isp.pdf • my graphic organizer on outlines.doc • example graphic organizer.doc

14. Process • Facts about King Henry VIII to get you started (click hyperlink) • Life • Philosophy • Interests • webquest Facts about Henry VIII.doc • Reminders • Work together • Cite all references • Cover all topics • Use rubric Evaluation / webquest rubric.doc

15. Resources to get you started… • Websites • http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheTudors/HenryVIII.aspx • http://www.the-tudors.org.uk/henry-viii.htm • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpw-EMjTu9Y • Nonfiction books • Henry VIII: the King and His Court and The Six Wives of Henry VIIIby Alison Weir • Fiction books • The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

16. Evaluation Henry VIII research Presentation Rubric

17. Evaluation Henry VIII research Presentation Rubric

18. Final thoughts • King Henry VIII Tudor of England was a man who allowed himself to be influenced by his court, and his women. It led to the death of many people. • Henry’s quest in life was to produce a male heir for the throne. He only got one sickly son and two daughters. All would eventually rule. How did his actions affect the monarchies of his children in later years? • King Henry changed the lives of six women. How did these women fare once he decided their lives were over? What happened to those who were not executed?

19. Future Activities • Diary of a queen—write the king’s tale from the POV of one of his wives • King Henry the madman—what happened to him? Why was he so paranoid? How did he die? Science Connection

20. Other monarchs we will cover in the coming weeks • King Edward VI • Queen Mary • Queen Elizabeth I The Tudors