1. What regional divisions existed?
FLIP LEARNING
TASK:
Read through the information provided and complete the following questions:
What regional divisions existed?
To what extent did regional divisions contribute to the social discontent and the outbreak of rebellions?
The work due for today is…

2. Continuum No contribution Large contribution
Place your post-it note along the continuum with your name on it. If your name is picked at random you will need to explain your answer.
No contribution
Large contribution
To what extent did regional divisions contribute to the social discontent and the outbreak of rebellions?

3. To what extent did England’s economy transform under Henry VII?
Good learning:
Describe what the English economy was like under Henry VII
Great learning:
Explain how the English economy changed
Even better:
Evaluate to what extent the English economy could be seen as a transformation
Key Word:
Agrarian
How did English society and economy change and with what effects?

4. What do we mean by ‘transform’?
Before we look at this lesson, we need to make sure we fully understand what TRANSFORM means. Discuss on your table and on your whiteboards write down a definition for what you think it means.
Change!
Transformation is…..
TASK
Now that we understand what it means. Write down a CRITERIA to what a transformation in economy might look it.

5. What do historians say about the English economy during this period?
Before we look at what happened to the English economy during this period, we are going to see what an historian has argued first of all. By the end of the lesson we will see how accurate and CONVINCING their argument is as well as looking at how much it transformed.
Fifteenth-century England was much more regionalised than it is today. England was still overwhelmingly an agrarian (i.e. farming) country for nine tenths of the people lived more or less directly from the land. Probably no greater proportion of the population lived in the towns than in Anglo-Saxon times. By 1500 the cloth industry, England’s major industry, possibly employed 30,000 people, or about 1.3 per cent of the population, full-time. Although it provided part-time work for a great many more people to support peasant agriculture, it was still insignificant as compared with the contribution of agriculture to the national economy. The harvest was the harsh, fundamental fact of life. In a ‘normal’ decade about one harvest in every four would be, in some degree, deficient, one in six really bad. This caused price fluctuations so violent as to be almost inconceivable even these days.
On you copy of the extract you have been given, underline (DO NOT HIGHLIGHT) all the key arguments they have made.

6. What do historians say about the English economy during this period?
Before we look at what happened to the English economy during this period, we are going to see what an historian has argued first of all. By the end of the lesson we will see how accurate and CONVINCING their argument is as well as looking at how much it transformed.
Fifteenth-century England was much more regionalised than it is today. England was still overwhelmingly an agrarian (i.e. farming) country for nine tenths of the people lived more or less directly from the land. Probably no greater proportion of the population lived in the towns than in Anglo-Saxon times. By 1500 the cloth industry, England’s major industry, possibly employed 30,000 people, or about 1.3 per cent of the population, full-time. Although it provided part-time work for a great many more people to support peasant agriculture, it was still insignificant as compared with the contribution of agriculture to the national economy. The harvest was the harsh, fundamental fact of life. In a ‘normal’ decade about one harvest in every four would be, in some degree, deficient, one in six really bad. This caused price fluctuations so violent as to be almost inconceivable even these days.
Make sure you have got the correct answer

7. What happened to the economy under Henry VII?
The population of England at the beginning of the fifteenth century was around 2.2m. The majority of people at this time were living in the countryside and relied on some sort of farming for a living. There was around 10% of the population which lived in towns and whilst they were considered small compared to those on the continent, there were some exceptions such as London with a population that exceeded 50,000. Other places like Norwich, Bristol, York and Coventry also had a population that ranged from 8,000 to 10,000. However, there were no more than 20 towns that had as many as 3000 people. In these urban areas wool and cloth were the main industries. Other industries included mining tin, coal and lead; metal working; and shipbuilding.
Although Henry VII was interested in building up his personal wealth, he had no specific ‘economic policy’ as a modern leader would. Any Acts of Parliament were often a result of merchants who had a vested interest.
TASK:
You have each been given an information sheet about the economy under Henry VII. You will need to read through it and highlight in one colour anything that suggests there was a transformation and in a different colour anything that suggests there was not.

8. What happened to the economy under Henry VII?
Now that you have all the evidence, each table is going to look at coming up with an answer to one of the following questions. You will need jot any thoughts onto your whiteboard and feedback to class where everyone will have the opportunity to record their answer.
1. What were some of the biggest changes under Henry VII? Explain their impact
3. What were some of the key areas that saw little change? Explain why.
5. Do you think the cloth trade was the most important contributor to English economy during the reign of Henry VII?
2. What were some of the reasons for the changes taking place?
4. To what degree was all the change positive? Give evidence to support
6. How significant was the position of agriculture in the English economy?

9. Overall, how convincing is this extract???
Now that we have all the evidence, look back at the extract from the beginning of the lesson….
Fifteenth-century England was much more regionalised than it is today. England was still overwhelmingly an agrarian (i.e. farming) country for nine tenths of the people lived more or less directly from the land. Probably no greater proportion of the population lived in the towns than in Anglo-Saxon times. By 1500 the cloth industry, England’s major industry, possibly employed 30,000 people, or about 1.3 per cent of the population, full-time. Although it provided part-time work for a great many more people to support peasant agriculture, it was still insignificant as compared with the contribution of agriculture to the national economy. The harvest was the harsh, fundamental fact of life. In a ‘normal’ decade about one harvest in every four would be, in some degree, deficient, one in six really bad. This caused price fluctuations so violent as to be almost inconceivable even these days.
Highlight in two different colours all the arguments that are convincing in one colour and all those that aren’t in a different one.
Overall, how convincing is this extract???

10. Society and economy transformed
String Debate
On the board there will be a statement and we are going to have a discussion about whether we agree with it or not. I will start off and then pass the ball of string to someone who must comment on either the statement or what has previously been said. They will then decide on the next person to pass the string onto and also give their comments. The idea is for everyone to have hold of the string by the end of the discussion.
Society and economy transformed
under Henry VII

11. -structure/hierarchy
FLIP LEARNING
TASK:
What is religion?
Create a fact file or poster on Christianity (mainly Catholicism) . It should cover the following:
Beliefs
-structure/hierarchy
Services
What is humanism?
The work due in for next lesson is as follows: