Given the circumstances -

would Charles 1 have been executed in

2012?

What do we need to know in order to answer this

question?

Would these factors apply in 2012?

Who was Charles 1? Why was he executed in 1649?

(He was accused of murder, tyranny and treason)

Should he have been executed in 1649? (Was this a fair and popular decision?)

SoLo• Structure of Observed Learning

Outcome• Do I know enough about the events to

make a decision about the execution of 1649?

• How do I apply these to 2012?

Making progress to the next level depends on finding the relationships

between this knowledge

In order to answer the questions students need a big

multistructural base of knowledge

Does Shakespeare influence all modern writers?Would Charles 1 have been executed in 2012?

Should Charles 1 have been executed in 1649?

What did he do and why?

Who is Charles 1?

THINKING SQUARES

Quick Test to see if we understand the SOLO

LevelsAssign each statement on your sheet of paper

to a SOLO level

1. Charles 1 convinced the Scots to change sides and support the Royalists.

UNISTRUCTURAL2. “The peculiar nature of the trial reflects not simply the fact that a King was on trial, but that both the King and his judges took their stand on what are still crucial principles - the King on his right to trial by a properly constituted court acting on the basis of established law, and his accusers on the need to call to account a King they had described as a tyrant who shed the blood of his people.”

EXTENDED ABSTRACT3. “Charles's last years were marked by the English Civil War, in which he fought the forces of the English and Scottish parliaments, which challenged his attempts to overrule and negate parliamentary authority, whilst simultaneously using his position as head of the English Church to pursue religious policies which generated the antipathy of reformed groups such as the Puritans.” RELATIONAL4. Charles? The only Charles I know is that chap who is the son of Queen Elizabeth 11.

PRESTRUCTURAL5. Charles 1 refused to share his power with Parliament. He believed that he had a divine right to rule. Charles caused both the First and the Second English Civil War.

MULTISTRUCTURAL

Would these factors apply in 2012?

Why was Charles executed in 1649?(He was accused of murder,

tyranny and treason) Use hexagons to write down

each point, then link these up to see the relationships.

Should he have been executed in 1649? Was this a fair and popular decision?