1. Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Each student is given a quiz, quiz, trade card. Each student needs to carry a pen/pencil with them. Students find a partner to ask their question to. If both partners get the questions right, they mark the card with a tick and trade cards. If students do not get the question right, they mark the cards and keep the cards.
Once questions are asked and answers attempted, partners put up their hand to signal that they are free to find a new partner. Students must record the answers on their recording sheet with each trading of cards.
Note: Movement of students could be reduced by getting students into circles - an outer circle and an inner circle with students facing each other. Outer circle moves on teacher instruction.
Cooperative Learning Activity.

2. Laois - Offaly Plantation
Question: What was the name of Queen Mary Tudors father?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question: Where did the first plantation in Ireland take place?
Answer: Laois - Offaly 1 2

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Question: What was the name of Queen Mary Tudor’s husband?
Answer: King Philip II of Spain
Question: How many wives did King Henry VIII have?
Answer: Six wives. 3 4

4. Laois - Offaly Plantation
Question: 1556 is in the ___ century.
Answer: The 16th century.
Question: ________ was the plan to confiscate land from the Irish and plant English or Scottish settlers in their land.
Answer: Plantation 5 6

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Question: Under which ruler did the first plantation take place in Ireland?
Answer: Queen Mary Tudor
Question:
What Gaelic chieftains ruled over the lands of Laois and Offaly?
Answer: The O’Mores and O’Connors. 7 8

6. Laois - Offaly Plantation
Question: Was the Laois-Offaly plantation successful? Why?
Answer: No, as there were not enough English settlers. The O’Mores and O’Connors continued to attack the English settlers.
Question: Where in Ireland is Queen’s County?
Answer: Laois 9 10

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Question:
Where in Ireland is King’s County?
Answer: Offaly
Question:
Portlaoise was named after Queen Mary Tudor. Portlaoise was known as _____________.
Answer: Maryborough. 11 12

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Question:
Daingean was named after Queen Mary’s husband, Philip. Daingean was known as _____________.
Answer: Philipstown.
Question:
Could English settlers marry the Irish?
Answer: No, it was forbidden. 13 14

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Question:
Prior to the adoption of English common law in Ireland, a native legal system, known as ___________, had applied throughout the country.
Answer: The Brehon law.
Question:
Mention one reason for why the Laois - Offaly plantation happened.
Answer: To punish unloyal Irish who were attacking the Pale. To extend English control over Ireland. 15 16

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Question:
What happened to the Gaelic clan after their land was confiscated from their land?
Answer: Some land was set aside near River Shannon, provided they remained loyal to Queen. O’Mores and O’Connors continued to attack the settlers.
Question:
Were the English settlers allowed to hire the Irish?
Answer: The settlers were not allowed to employ the Irish. 17 17

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Question:
Were the settlers allowed to rent land to the Irish?
Answer: No, English settlers were not allowed rent land to the Irish.
Question:
Provide the names of three groups which lived in Ireland in 1500?
Answer: Gaelic Irish, the Anglo-Normans and English living in the Pale. 18 19

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Question:
Which group did the O’Mores and O’Connors belong to? Gaelic Irish, Anglo-Normans or English living in the Pale?
Answer: Gaelic Irish
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What was the ‘Pale’?
Answer: A protected area around Dublin where English laws and customs existed. 20 21

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17. Reflecting on the activity...
Look at the cards you now have… Who had the hardest question in the class? Which card got the least correct answers? Which card got the most correct answers? Which card was answered the most?