PowerPoint (with 9 slides) and one word document that examines the reasons for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s fall from power in 1529.
Activities include
- Source analysis starter of a John Skelton poem.
- Recall activity, based on prior learning, to list Wolsey domestic and foreign policy failures.
- Source analysis to establish Wolsey’s wealth, arrogance and ambition as a potential cause of his fall from power.
- Source analysis of an Anne Boleyn letter to the Cardinal to establish how he had failed her.
- Discussion on what role Anne Boleyn and the Duke of Norfolk may have played in Wolsey’s dismissal as Lord Chancellor in 1529.
- Matching activity to link grievances with Wolsey to the correct party.
- Source analysis to establish whether Wolsey deserved the blame for the execution of the Duke of Buckinghamin 1521.
- Timeline analysis to help establish the relative importance of factors in Wolsey’s fall from power.
- Plenary ranking activity to stimulate discussion on the most important factor in Wolsey’s fall from to power.
Designed for the teaching of OCR History Y106 The Early & Mid Tudors.
Lesson Length: 1hr 30min depending on pace
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