Let’s Meet …. King Alfred the Great

Description

Let’s Meet …. King Alfred the Great, Let’s Meet Series (so far), 2 speakers (famous person plus interviewer), 5 minutes reading time (not including quizzes)

• • • Alfred the Great
    • Boudicca
    • Henry VIII
    • Henry VIII – 2 scripts & 2 quizzes:
    • Wives
    • The Reformation
    • Elizabeth I
    • Florence Nightingale
    • Vincent Van Gogh

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 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 student and teacher

Also available: Vincent Van Gogh – a Monologue (plus quiz and discussion suggestions)

Plus

• • • Meet the Anglo-Saxons Guided Readers (See detailed breakdown after quiz)
    • Wonderful Winchester Assembly or Class Play

Sample Text:

Interviewer:    Good afternoon! And you must be King Alfred

Alfred:             The Great! Please don’t forget that bit!

Interviewer:    The only one of our kings to have that title

Alfred:             And well deserved, may I add!

Interviewer:    To be sure!

(Aside) Though why he needs to keep reminding me …

Alfred:             So, as your memory did have that slight falter, shall I help you

Interviewer:    Remember how great you were?

Alfred:             Oh, that would be a little presumptuous. I’ll just settle for why I was Great!

Interviewer:    (Aside) Amazing how little some egos need in the way of encouragement!

Very well. Let’s hear it.

Alfred:             Maybe we should start with my scholarly skills.

Interviewer:    Yes, I have heard you were quite the student!

Alfred:             And I made sure everyone else benefitted from my knowledge – all that Latin in our books turned into something we could understand!

Interviewer:    So, wait a minute. Before we get totally stuck into what made you great

Alfred:             I can’t wait!