BONFIRE NIGHT

What is Bonfire Night?• Every year on the 5th November in

England, we celebrate Bonfire Night.• This is because on the 5th November

1605, a man called Guy Fawkes and his friends decided to try to blow up the English government and the King, James I.

Guy Fawkes

Government- gobierno

Blow up- volar

• Guy Fawkes came from a city called York:

WHY did he want to kill the king?

• Guy Fawkes was a Catholic, but King James I was a Protestant.

• Guy Fawkes wanted England to be Catholic, so he wanted to kill the King.

• So, he tried to blow up the government using gunpowder!

Gunpowder: Pólvora

What happened?

• People discovered Guy Fawkes, his men and the gunpowder before he could blew up the government.

• He was put in prison.• He and his men were

killed and their heads were put on sticks as a warning to other people.

Why do we remember this?

• Because of a law passed in 1606 called the “Law of Thanksgiving”, we have to remember what Guy Fawkes tried to do on the 5th of November every year.

Thanksgiving Law

What happens now?

• Every 5th November in England we have a big party and celebration to remember what Guy Fawkes did.

• We build a huge bonfire, and we make a model of Guy Fawkes, then burn it on top.

• We also watch lots of fireworks.

We also use sparklers

What do you eat?

• We eat toffee apples and jacket potatoes that are cooked in tin foil on the bonfire!

We have a poem about Guy Fawkes:

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,

Gunpowder Treason and Plot,

I know of no reasonWhy the Gunpowder TreasonShould ever be forgot

Some photos I took on Bonfire Night

Happy Bonfire Night!!