GCSE lesson in which students work through a range of differentiated clues to work out 8 reasons which help answer the lessons’ enquiry question before evaluating how well a recent textbook explains it.
So often I have seen this lesson taught directly from textbooks and handouts. Textbooks clearly have their reference uses, but for the student they suffer from one serious defect: a problem is solved at the outset. Students are given too complete an answer with insufficient consideration being given to the process of arriving at a conclusion; the student becomes the passive recipient if someone else’s work. This lesson will serve as an antidote. It is the first in a three-part enquiry:
Part 1 Why did vagrancy become such an important issue in Elizabethan England?
The other parts are:
Part 2: How serious a problem was vagrancy in Elizabethan England, and how do we know?
Part 3: How effectively did Elizabeth deal with the vagrancy issue?
Learning objectives
- To work out 7 possible reasons for the increase in vagrancy in the Elizabethan period
- To analyse a range of types of sources e.g. graphs and tables of statistics and to draw conclusions from them
- To link causes together
- To
