Let’s Meet Elizabeth I

Description

Let’s Meet Elizabeth I part of Let’s Meet Series (so far), 2 speakers (famous person plus interviewer), 5 minutes reading time (not including quizzes)

List (so far)

• • • Boudicca
    • Henry VIII
    • Henry VIII – 2 scripts & 2 quizzes:
    • Wives
    • The Reformation
    • Elizabeth I
    • Florence Nightingale

Plus scripts between

• • • Queen Victoria and Elizabeth I
    • Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole

This series of reading texts based on famous characters – past and present –will include monarchs, adventurers, poets, inventors, politicians, space explorers – all taken from the current primary school curriculum, with two objectives:

1. 1. 1. To Bring History Alive (as with my plays)
      2. To make reading a more lively, interactive experience – for both child and teacher

NB There is another script, with Elizabeth chatting to Victoria! See list above

Sample Text

Let’s Meet Elizabeth I

Interviewer:    Ah, Good Queen Bess (pauses) or should that be Great Lioness!

Elizabeth:        ‘Your Majesty’ will do nicely!

(Adding coquettishly) Though you can call me Elizabeth!

Interviewer:    You always did have a way with the men! All those suitors you kept dangling!

Elizabeth:        With very good reason! I was wedded to my kingdom!

Interviewer:    You remain a great symbol of true British patriotism! No wonder your people loved you!

Elizabeth:        And I them. As I said in that great speech I made at Tilbury “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king and a king of England, too”.

Interviewer:    Every bit as strong as your father, Henry VIII.

Elizabeth:        Yes, I liked to model myself on his strengths.

Interviewer:    Admirable, how you loved him – given what happened to your mother!

Elizabeth:        Indeed. Depriving me of my mother before I’d even reached three years old.

Interviewer:    Sending her to the block and proving himself to be anything but a warm, loving father.

Elizabeth:        It’s true, I hardly saw him.

Interviewer:    And then to live in fear of your life under Mary’s reign.