Puritan Age and Restoration - Lesson Plan Student are required to know at the end of the period: Puritan Age Map: print and keep in your folder, It will be useful to get an overall idea of the period Overview of the period: Students have to know the main events of the period, from Elizabeth's death to the Glorious Revolution : the names of the kings, their dynasties, the religious problems (Puritans – Catholics – Protestants), who were the Pilgrim Fathers and the voyage of the Mayflowers, the parties at the Parliament, the Civil War, the execution of the king, Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth, the plague & Great Fire, the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution. Westminster Abbey is the church were most of the kings have been crowned and buried. Visit the website and find out the main information about it. (location, price, map, when it was first built, people buried there) www.westminster-abbey.org A leaflet will be given to the students + a short video to be watched
In detail students will focus on: Puritans – who they were, what part they had in the Parliament and in the civil war, cultural consequences Pilgrim fathers – Mayflowers - Thanksgiving – Language about Thanksgiving. Video. Oliver Cromwell Literature: what is Metaphysical Poetry John Donne: biography (in short) Go and Catch a Falling Star, reading the original test in English, summary, analysis of the themes of the poem). As it is not easy to translate a poem, a translation in the student's mothertongue is allowed during the lesson.