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Part 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Mantel, Hilary. The Mirror & the Light. Henry Holt and Company, 2020. Hardcover.

• At the beginning of Part 1, “Wreckage (I),” Anne Boleyn, the former queen of Henry VIII, has just been executed by beheading.

• Thomas Cromwell is in the crowd watching.

• Cromwell is the son of a blacksmith, but he has risen to become the King’s right-hand man.

• Cromwell watches the execution and sees the expertise of the executioner who is from France.

• He sees the courage of Anne’s women.

• They do not allow any men to touch her body.

• He watches the crowd and notes how Suffolk refuses to kneel.

• His son, Gregory, puts on a brave face.

• No coffin has been provided for Anne, so she is put inside an arrow case.

• Cromwell worries about his son Gregory.

• He is coaching him...

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