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Meet The Tudor Explorers: set of 5 Guided Reading Play Scripts

Meet The Tudor Explorers: set of 5 Guided Reading Play Scripts – 6 speakers each, plus quizzes – Play 1: Who were they? (Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Martin Frobisher, Richard Chancellor, Ferdinand Magellan and Sir Francis Drake); Play 3: Raleigh’s Roanoke Settlement – Plight of Native Americans; Play 4: Anglo-Spanish Hostilities – Introduction to Slavery; Play 5: The Slave

5 plays (6 speakers each) and 5 quizzes

Play 1  Meet The Tudor Explorers:  Tudor Explorers

Speakers:

• Christopher Columbus,
• John Cabot
• Martin Frobisher
• Richard Chancellor
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Sir Francis Drake

Drake: Hmm. Now, let’s think. What did Columbus, Frobisher and Cabot all have in common?

Could it be the illusive North-west passage?

Chancellor: How right you are! They all went to their deathbeds believing they had found Asia!

Magellan: Whereas they had actually stumbled upon the east coast of America!

Play 2 Meet The Tudor Explorers : Drake’s Round the World Voyage

Speakers:

• Sir Francis Drake,
• Captain Thomas Doughty
• Sailor 1, 2, 3, 4

Sir Francis Drake: Welcome aboard, fellow sea dogs!

Sailor 1: I’d laugh ..but I think he means it – look at these dog biscuits we just got served up!

Play 3 Meet The Tudor Explorers: Raleigh’s Roanoke Settlement – Plight of Native Americans

art 2 can be used as a link with PSHCE  Unit 5 Living in a Diverse World – examining the plight of Native Americans.

Speakers: Part 1:

• Sir Walter Raleigh,
• Sir John White,
• Settler 1,2;
• Indian 1, 2

Part 2: Indian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Indian 5:  Those Europeans all conveniently forgot that we were here first.

Indian 6:  It was our land they took for their own.

Indian 1: Our buffalo they killed, often just for the fun of it.

Indian 2: They took away what we needed to survive

Play 4 Meet The Tudor Explorers: Anglo-Spanish Hostilities – Introduction to Slavery

Link with PSHCE Unit 5: Living in a Diverse World , looking at origins of slave trade – starting point for discussion on racial prejudice

Speakers:

• Sir Francis Drake,
• Queen Elizabeth 1st,
• King Phillip II (of Spain),
• Sir John Hawkins,
• Slave,
• Sailor

Slave: Or the Mr. Innocence. It’s really not at all convincing. Not to anybody who had the dubious pleasure of being a ‘ship mate’ on board one of your slave galleys.

Sailor: Conditions were bad enough for us plain sailors!

Slave: Nothing, I can assure you, could compare with what we endured.  We were treated

worse than animals, and millions of us died en route.

Play 5 Meet The Tudor Explorers: The Slave

Speakers:

• John Hawkins,
• Slave,
• Martin Luther King,
• White American Child (Maisie),
• Black American Child (Joel),
• Teacher

Martin Luther King:

According to slave codes, slaves were not allowed to learn to read and write, carry weapons, meet in groups or move about without permission.

Joel: So I guess we’re back to where we started – talking about that weird definition of equality in the Declaration of Independence.

Teacher: What an amazing story! What a long way we have come since those dark days.

Martin Luther King:

Yes, but we should not become complacent. Racism is sadly not a thing of the past – there are still people who have prejudiced views.