Mary's long imprisonments tried her to the limit and her relationship with Elizabeth was central to the situation she was in . In this lesson we look at this relationship from both sides and Mary's attempts for freedom. The famous Casket Letters and The Babington Plot also feature and finally Mary's Death Scene.
Key Drama skills in this lesson are hot seating, mime, ritual, improvisation, tableau, corridor of evidence, whole class ritual.
Students will have reached the end in their Drama series on Mary's Life and will now feel they were actually there. Opportunities for written work and othe Arts activities are limitless. You could even pull together the best pieces of Drama from the topic and show another class.
Throughout the series the students will have achieved the aims of the four capactities of The Curriculum For Excellence and similar learning aspirations in countries outside the UK.
