Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley
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Coloring Pages:
Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada
Videos and Activities:
(by Page Number, with page 1 beginning on the author’s note)
Pages 3-4 Henry VIII and the church (4.5 minutes)
Pages 5-6 Horrible Histories wives of Henry VIII song (warning, Horrible Histories) (2 minutes)
Pages 7-8 Portraits of a young Queen Elizabeth
Pages 9-10 Mary the First Song (Horrible Histories) (3 minutes)
Pages 11-12 The Queen’s Coronation (2 minutes, movie excerpt)
Pages 13-14 Portraits of Queen Elizabeth’s Middle Years
Pages 15-16 Queen Elizabeth Craft
Pages 17-18 A look at traveling with the Queen, might wish to preread and summarize
Pages 19-20 Mary, Queen of Scots (Horrible Histories) (3 minutes)
Pages 21-22 Mary, Queen of Scots (Horrible Histories, different segment) (4 minutes)
Pages 23-24 Pictures of Queen Elizabeth in later years
Pages 25-26 Babington Plot (4.5 minutes) (gruesome
Pages 27-28 Queen Elizabeth’s speech to the troops at Tilbury (2 minutes)
Pages 29-30 Spanish armada (Horrible Stories) (3 minutes)
Pages 31-32 Queen Elizabeth Craft
Pages 33-34 Shakespeare (3.5 minutes)
Pages 35-36 Burial (1 minute)
A look at Elizabeth’s effigy and other items
Extras:
Again, Diane Stanley has a great many other books about many famous people and other topics. The one I feel goes best with this book is Bard of Avon about William Shakespeare.
