Chapter Three - Example Bosplan

Chapter Three Introduction | Objectives/outcomes Bank | Tracking an Objective Through a Lesson | example Bosplan | example Evidence | example Timeplan | example Henry | example Tudor | Assessing the objective/outcome |
Exemplar Lesson Plans - 1 2 3 4 5 | Hughs Account | Scripts

This is easy to explain! You want to know why I helped to kill the traitor Becket? Well, doesn’t that answer your question? The man had been getting away with too much, giving himself airs and graces, forgetting where he came from, pretending that he was something he wasn’t! But, worst of all, Becket went against the King! Did he really think that he would be allowed to get away with all this?

I suppose the problems started when King Henry allowed Becket to become the Archbishop. Becket never really understood what a huge favour our King had done for him. Overnight he changed from being King Henry’s best friend to a power-hungry idiot! Henry gave him lots of chances too. The first falling out was when Henry needed Becket’s help with the church courts. Becket had been asked to be Archbishop so that Henry could sort out issues like this. It was obvious to everyone that Henry expected Becket to continue to be a loyal subject. But Becket started to throw his weight around – agreeing with the clergy! He had completed changed his opinion! King Henry was outraged! He thought that Becket shared his views. Now Becket had taken the position and the money and was refusing to do what Henry asked.

Becket knew he was in the wrong so he ran away to France and hid. King Henry was devastated. He made several efforts to make it up with his friend but Becket would not listen. Henry made a fool of himself when he asked Becket to come home but he was prepared to do that to fix things. We all counselled him against it but Henry was sure that it was the right thing to do. However, when Becket came back, he continued to be ungrateful and disloyal to Henry.

Henry was rightfully angry at how Becket was carrying on. Henry was desperate to regain his lost friend but could see no way to move forward. He became increasingly bitter and angry at the compromises that Becket was trying force him to accept. Of course, we could see that Becket was pushing the King too far. Henry is the King of this land and it is his right to make all the decisions. Understandably, Henry began to lose his temper. Everyone at court could see that Becket had gone too far and that something needed to be done. But Henry’s hands were tied. It isn’t easy to arrest the Archbishop of Canterbury!

When Henry was in a rage, he would rant about how he could not see a solution to the problems with Becket. Yesterday when he said that he wanted someone to get rid of Becket, we knew what he meant. Henry couldn’t do it himself and he needed someone to do it for him. Me and a group of others decided to sort it out for Henry. Becket might not be loyal, but we would show Henry that he still had friends.

We rode as hard as we could to Canterbury, where Becket was praying in the church. We burst in to see him cowering and cringing on his knees! This man deserved no pity and we gave him none. A monk came out of nowhere and tried to get in between us. I knocked him out of the way and the four of us lunged at Becket. We tried to carry him from the church to give him some dignity in death but the coward would not be moved. As if we would hold back after his sins against the King! One by one we rained blows on this wretched traitor until his brains were staining the floor. Then we rode away, safe in the knowledge that we had done a service to our King and for our God, removing this pathetic liar from God’s holy office.