Prompt Milton Meltzer writes about Elizabeth I who ruled England for 45 years. He explores a variety of themes. Choose a theme presented in the text and write a one page expository essay explaining the development of this theme throughout the text. Use textual evidence to support your response. Teacher Instructions Students identify their writing task from the prompt provided. Students complete an evidence chart as a pre-writing activity. Teachers should guide students in gathering and using any relevant notes they compiled while reading and answering the text-dependent questions earlier. Some students will need a good deal of help gathering this evidence, especially when this process is new and/or the text is challenging! Evidence Page Elaboration / explanation of how this evidence supports Quote or paraphrase number ideas or argument "At the age of two she lost her mother when Henry Because Elizabeth was a princess, she was destined to be had Anne's head chopped off." raised in grandeur, and yet because she was a princess, her 511 father had the right to behead her mother. From the very beginning, the dichotomy of privilege and sacrifice is seen in Elizabeth's life. "I am already bound unto a husband, which is the Elizabeth is stating her sacrifice of not having a family. A Kingdom of England." 513 family would detract her attention from what was best for England as well as relegate some power to a husband. She loved England too much to trust anyone else with its rule. "Why should she, the absolute ruler of England, allow The author's tone in this paragraph clearly shows that he a man to sit alongside her as king?....a husband might 514 agrees Elizabeth had to sacrifice the roles of wife and mother snatch the reins of power from her and leave her with if she planned on truly ruling England in fact as well as title. the title but not the authority…."
Prompt Milton Meltzer writes about Elizabeth I who ruled England for 45 years. He explores a variety of themes. Choose a theme presented in the text and write a one page expository essay explaining the development of this theme throughout the text. Use textual evidence to support your response. Teacher Instructions Students identify their writing task from the prompt provided. Students complete an evidence chart as a pre-writing activity. Teachers should guide students in gathering and using any relevant notes they compiled while reading and answering the text-dependent questions earlier. Some students will need a good deal of help gathering this evidence, especially when this process is new and/or the text is challenging! Evidence Quote or paraphrase Page number Elaboration / explanation of how this evidence supports ideas or argument "At the age of two she lost her mother when Henry had Anne's head chopped off." 511 Because Elizabeth was a princess, she was destined to be raised in grandeur, and yet because she was a princess, her father had the right to behead her mother. From the very beginning, the dichotomy of privilege and sacrifice is seen in Elizabeth's life. "I am already bound unto a husband, which is the Kingdom of England." 513 Elizabeth is stating her sacrifice of not having a family. A family would detract her attention from what was best for England as well as relegate some power to a husband. She loved England too much to trust anyone else with its rule. "Why should she, the absolute ruler of England, allow a man to sit alongside her as king?....a husband might snatch the reins of power from her and leave her with the title but not the authority…." 514 The author's tone in this paragraph clearly shows that he agrees Elizabeth had to sacrifice the roles of wife and mother if she planned on truly ruling England in fact as well as title.