Pre Assessment Assessment Pre Assessment Assessment

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1. What do I notice about myself by looking at my scores on my bar graph?

2. What I am most proud of? Why3. How Can I continue to improve?4. What are goals next time?5. What activities help me most in achieving and improving my

scores?

Smart Goal100% of my 8th grade students will

score an 80% or better on “How ideas and events allowed

change in NC and US over Time.” assessment by October 5, 2012.

8.H.3 I can idenitfy the important events and ideas that allowed change in NC and US over time?

Elizabethan England

Elizabeth (1533-1603)

• Became queen 1558

• Asset - Creatively handled problems

Acceptance Problems• Ascension confusion/dispute

– Legitimacy• Personal image (turned liabilities

to assets)– Young (25)– Out of power during Mary

Tudor's reign (Bloody Mary)– Female (Why a problem?)– Single (Why a problem?)

• Coronation• Visits to the Lords

– Nickname - "Good Queen Bess"

Money Problems• Lords (other national leaders)

support Elizabeth's visits• Stopped the wars with France

and Spain• Promoted industry and trade

in England• Promoted industry and trade

in New World • Privateers – stealing on the

high seas to get funds for England from Spain

Religious Problems• Protestant versus Catholic division• Reaction to undo all of Mary's acts

–Parliament dissolved ties to Catholicism

• Puritan zealousness

French Problems• England at war with France

– Instigated by Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary)– Elizabeth didn't worry about pride issue –

just got out– Why is war a problem? Economic - Money

Spanish Problems • Rivalry with England (Protestant vs.

Catholic)• Philip II interference• Privateers – Sir Francis Drake• Battle with Spanish Armada (1588)• Why is this rivalry a problem? Economic - Money

English Problems • Vision for the country

– Wealthy Merchants and citizens

– Seafarers – control of the seas

– Expansion of country through colonization

• Reality– Overpopulation – high unemployment– high homelessness– high debt – full debtors

prison– high crime rate

1. In your groups, take turns reading the article “Life in Elizabethan England” out loud as others follow along.

2. Complete the “Learning from Text” activity.

3. Begin the Comic Story “ My Life in Elizabethan England”

GROUP ACTIVITY