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Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lessonMayo Bihemi 01/11/21 Upper-intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Reading
Lesson Topic:
Guy Fawkes Night
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
To understand a piece of writing using reading techniques such as Complete activities that will demonstrate their understanding.
reading for gist and specific information when reading a text. 1. Have a discussion with a partner about the text meaning and 2.
Reorder the story
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Technical language (unfamiliar language) would make it 1. To ensure comprehension CCQs will be used.
difficult for learner to cope as they are more complex or
dense 2. I will explain that the objective is to improve their reading
skills so that they can extract specific information from the
2. Slow readers will process the text building up meaning by next and not to have to understand it completely. I will pair
reading word for word (Bottom-up) and scrutinize stronger students with weaker ones to enable them to
vocabulary and syntax. benefit from each other’s abilities.
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,Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
Guy Fawkes Night
Catholicism in England was heavily repressed under Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), particularly after the pope
excommunicated her in 1570. During her reign, dozens of priests were put to death, and Catholics could not even
legally celebrate Mass or be married according to their own rites. As a result, many Catholics had high hopes when
King James I took the throne upon Elizabeth’s death in 1603.
English Catholics had organized several failed conspiracies against Elizabeth, and these continued under James. In
1603 a few priests and laymen hatched the so-called Bye Plot to kidnap James, only to be turned in by fellow
Catholics. Another related conspiracy that year, known as the Main Plot, sought to kill James and install his cousin
on the throne. Then, in May 1604, a handful of Catholic dissidents—Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby, Tom Wintour,
Jack Wright and Thomas Percy—met at the Duck and Drake inn in London, where Catesby proposed a plan to blow
up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder. Afterwards, all five men purportedly swore an oath of secrecy upon a
prayer book.
Eight other conspirators would later join what became known as the Gunpowder Plot. But although Catesby was the
ringleader, Fawkes has garnered most of the publicity over the past 400-plus years. Born in 1570 in York, England,
Fawkes spent about a decade fighting for Spain against Protestant rebels in the Spanish-controlled Netherlands. He
also personally petitioned the king of Spain for help in starting an English rebellion against James. According to
writings in the Spanish archives, Fawkes believed the English king was a heretic who would drive out his Catholic
subjects. Fawkes also apparently expressed strong anti-Scottish prejudices.
By 1605 Fawkes was calling himself Guido rather than Guy. He also used the alias John Johnson while serving as
caretaker of a cellar—located just below the House of Lords—that the plotters had leased in order to stockpile
gunpowder. Under the plan, Fawkes would light a fuse on November 5, 1605, during the opening of a new session of
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, Parliament. James, his eldest son, the House of Lords and the House of Commons would all be blown sky-high. In
the meantime, as Fawkes escaped by boat across the River Thames, his fellow conspirators would start an uprising
in the English Midlands, kidnap James’ daughter Elizabeth, install her as a puppet queen and eventually marry her
off to a Catholic, thereby restoring the Catholic monarchy.
On October 26, an anonymous letter advising a Catholic sympathizer to avoid the State Opening of Parliament
alerted the authorities to the existence of a plot. To this day, no one knows for sure who wrote the letter. Some
historians have even suggested that it was fabricated and that the authorities already knew of the Gunpowder Plot,
only letting it progress as an excuse to further crack down on Catholicism. Either way, a search party found Fawkes
skulking in his cellar around midnight on November 4, with matches in his pocket and 36 barrels of gunpowder
stacked next to him. For Fawkes, the plot’s failure could be blamed on “the devil and not God.” He was taken to the
Tower of London and tortured upon the special order of King James. Soon after, his co-conspirators were likewise
arrested, except for four, including Catesby, who died in a shootout with English troops.
Fawkes and his surviving co-conspirators were all found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death in January
1606 by hanging, drawing and quartering. A Jesuit priest was also executed a few months later for his alleged
involvement, even as new laws banned Catholics from voting in elections, practicing law or serving in the military. In
fact, Catholics were not fully emancipated in England until the 19th century.
After the plot was revealed, Londoners began lighting celebratory bonfires, and in January 1606 an act of Parliament
designated November 5 as a day of thanksgiving. Guy Fawkes Day festivities soon spread as far as the American
colonies, where they became known as Pope Day. In keeping with the anti-Catholic sentiment of the time, British
subjects on both sides of the Atlantic would burn an effigy of the pope. That tradition completely died out in the
United States by the 19th century, whereas in Britain Guy Fawkes Day became a time to get together with friends
and family, set off fireworks, light bonfires, attend parades and burn effigies of Fawkes.
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