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INTRODUCTION TO NEW UNIT OF WORK :
THE BLACK DEATH IN THE 14TH CENTURY.
ACTIVITY 1
Read article -
Black Death back track
provide a brief summary of main points about the plague at this time.
ACTIVITY 2
Read article -
Medieval Crisis: The Black Death
provide some notes about the plague and its causes.
ACTIVITY 3
REFLECTION
1. Exactly what is the bubonic plague - what causes it and how does it spread?
2. What types of plague existed and what were the differences?
3. What were some of the ridiculous ideas for treating the plague and beliefs about how people were infected by the plague?
4. How would you have coped in medieval times?
5. Why don't we suffer from the 'black death' today?
6. Why would knowledge of a microscope, hygiene, antibiotics and rats (and their fleas) as carriers of disease, have helped to understand the plague and how it spread?
ACTIVITY 4
QUIZ - open the link below and complete the quiz :
http://historymedren.about.com/library/weekly/aa061103a.htm
FACT :
1347 - The Black Death begins in Europe. This horrible disease would kill almost half the people in Europe.
1348 - The Black Death reaches Paris and southern England
Note :
This historical background will assist you in understanding the threat of plague in the novel The Black Dog Gang. You will use these notes when you study this section of the novel.
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