Pre-Modern+England

KAI 1: The social, political, economic, and cultural nature of traditional societies before modernisation
The cycles of life in traditional societies: Japan and England since 1500 = = =Mock-debate= Imagine that you are a person from England and you want to voice your opinion on an issue that you feel strongly about.
 * customs;
 * feudalism;
 * modes of production, trade and economics, the nature of work,
 * rural life,
 * urban life,
 * social structures, family, marriage,domestic economies,
 * religion,
 * leisure, customs,
 * diseases, mortality.

Choose a period: use your work book
 * Tudor England: 1502 – 1603
 * Civil War and revolution 1603 – 1771
 * Empire and Sea power 1714 1837

Now choose a character and an issue Some examples:
 * A slave trader: the slave triangle is a vital part of the British economy.
 * A Leveller: the 1649 Agreement of the Free People of England.
 * Poverty in Elizabethan England and the price of food
 * Gambling dens, alehouses and the brothels of London
 * The dangers of travel
 * The filth of the city
 * A self-respecting gentleman: -gold thread and silk stockings-
 * War: the Napoleonic wars
 * A peasant: the enclosure acts
 * A politician
 * Other

Now open Activity1 Part B page.

Resources
Workbook Internet [] [] [] [|**http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml**] [] [] [] [] [] []

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