Describe 3 significant things that you learned last lesson.

What we learned last lesson?

Compare your three things in pairs

List at least five significant things between you.

Your Findings

• What were the houses like?• What would they have been like to live

in?• What were the towns like?• Why did disease spread so easily?• Who tried to cure illnesses?• Why could doctors do so little?• Describe a medieval cure• How effective do you think cures were?

In pairs, discuss 3 things you would like to learn about the Black Death.

Write 3 questions you would like answered today.

Q1. What was the Black Death?

Q2. What caused the Black Death?

Q3. What were the symptoms?

Q4. How was it spread?

Q5. What were the medieval reasons it?

Q5. What types of protection and cures did

people try?

Q6. What were the consequences of the Black

Death?

Q1. What was the Black Death?

Q2. What caused the Black Death?

Q3. What were the symptoms?

Q4. How was it spread?

Q5. What were the medieval reasons it?

Q5. What types of protection and cures did

people try?

Q6. What were the consequences of the Black

Death?

Q1. What was the Black Death?

Q2. What caused the Black Death?

Q3. What were the symptoms?

Q4. How was it spread?

Q5. What were the medieval reasons it?

Q5. What types of protection and cures did

people try?

Q6. What were the consequences of the Black

Death?

Skills

• Work together to achieve targets

• Practice note taking

• Improve listening skills

• Develop observation skills

• Develop creativity skills

Learning Together

1. Split page into 6 sections of 5 lines each

Draw line then count down 5 lines & draw next line

PairedTask

2. Copy headings into your 6 sections:

CuresHow to stop its spreadE

Medieval reasons for diseaseD

SymptomsC

What was the Black Death?B

ConsequencesF

Where did disease come from? How? Reached Britain when?

A

What was the Black Death?

• Black Rats - Rattus rattus

Symptoms of Black Death?

• Use p42 of ‘Medieval Britain’

• Use p58 of ‘History Through Maps and Diagrams to 1485’

• Make your own notes for sections A to C• • •

3. Task

• Sort pictures into order of happening• Be able to give your reasons for putting

them in that order

4. Group Task

• Listen carefully to me

• Complete section D of task sheet

5. Whole ClassBad smells

Position of planets

Blamed cripples/rich

God’s punishment

Bad southernwind

Jews

• Complete section E of task sheet using information from video

6. Watch video

7. Paired Task

• Use books to complete section F

The Black Death – my learning

Look at all the information you have learned in both lessons

Using any technique you wish show:

• what you have learned about the Black Death

However, must be done as if you were actually there at the time

Ideas

Letter to MP

MP’s speech in

Parliament

Newspaper article

Diary entry of your life

Letter to family

cartoon

Poster/drawing

Poem

Pairs: 5 minutes to brainstorm ideas

The Black Death – my learning

Look at all the information you have learned in both lessons

Using any technique you wish show:

• what you have learned about the Black Death

However, must be done as if you were actually there at the time

Q1. What was the Black Death?

Q2. What caused the Black Death?

Q3. What were the symptoms?

Q4. How was it spread?

Q5. What were the medieval reasons it?

Q5. What types of protection and cures did

people try?

Q6. What were the consequences of the Black

Death?

Skills

• Work together to achieve targets

• Practice note taking

• Improve listening skills

• Develop observation skills

• Develop creativity skills

What have we learned today?

Individual feedback• How do you know you have been

successful today?• What was, in your opinion, the best

activity?– Why?

• What worked well these lessons?• What might we do differently next

time?

Let’s have fun

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