Let’s Meet Henry VIII

Description

Let’s Meet Henry VIII is for 2 speakers (famous person plus interviewer) with 5 minutes reading time (not including quizzes)

Let’s Meet Series (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

Sample Text:

Let’s Meet Henry VIII

Interviewer:    Hmm, now, how should I address you?

Henry:             Your Majesty?

Interviewer:    I was thinking more along the lines of … Monster!

Henry:             Why, you .. How dare you?

Interviewer:    Oh, quite easily given you no longer have the power to behead me!

Henry:             I don’t?

Interviewer:    Nah, fraid not! We no longer do that kind of thing

Henry:             We don’t?

Interviewer:    Or rather, neither kings nor queens have the power to do that.

Henry:             Really? Well, that’s outrageous. Have you never heard of absolute power?

Interviewer:    As a matter of fact I have – but it’s no longer of any use to you. We’ve moved on. As I said the 21st century is a civilized time to live. And we have a constitutional monarch, Elizabeth II

Henry:             Ah, well, that explains it! Women! It’s why I was so against having one following me as monarch.