Happy Friday, future leaders!

For today’s warm-up please do the following:

• Grab your student log and notebook from the crates.• Take out your homework - (yesterday’s recruitment poster)• Write in today’s date and objective on your student log.• Open your notebook and respond to the following prompt:

Make effort, not excuses.

USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

“Ring around the Rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down!” This is a pretty old

nursery rhyme. What do you think the lyrics mean?

Write one full paragraph.

Happy Friday, future leaders!

For today’s warm-up please do the following:

• Grab your student log and notebook from the crates.• Draw an X through today’s homework box.• Write in today’s date and objective on your student log.• Open your notebook and respond to the following prompt:

Make effort, not excuses.

USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

“Ring around the Rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down!” This is a pretty old

nursery rhyme. What do you think the lyrics mean?

Write one full paragraph.

World History with Mr. Golden__________________________________________________________

The Middle Ages – The Black Death

Objective:________________________________________________________

FLWBAT explore and describe the effects of the Black Plague on world history

Agenda:________________________________________________________

- Review- Black Death notes- Guided reading- Study time…- Gasp! A quiz?!?!- We’re done!

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

The basics:Sometimes called the Black Death, the Plague, or the Bubonic Plague

I’m super infected with a deadly virus!

Now we are too!

FLEA BITES RAT

FLEA BITES MAN

Dern thing was hiding in

my moustache!

MAN DIES

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

CAUSES: Overpopulationo Europeans were

farming all of the land that they could

o Populations grew out of control

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

CAUSES: Unsanitary Conditions

A lot of filthy people create a lot of trash… what’s attracted to giant piles of

trash laying around in cities?

RATS & FLEAS carried the plague and inflected people when they were bitten

I’m going to kill you!

o People rarely bathedo There was no public

sanitationo Populations cramped

tightly into cities

Don’t mind me, just

pouring my poop out on the street.

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

…and you thought it was unsanitary BEFORE!

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

So, how’d it get to Europe?

Notice how it follows right along these trade routes?

Each one of the dots and lines is showing a plague outbreak

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

CAUSES: The Crusadeso The disease travels with merchants along

trade routes from China to Europeo Soldiers fighting in the Crusades brought the

disease back with them

Sure, it’ll kill a few million people, but

just look at this imported silk rug!

Any ideas on why Poland dodged the plague bullet?

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

Solutions?

Europe during the Middle Ages isn’t a place of “learning” and most things get

explained through

superstition…

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

Problem: Solution:You’re sick – what

do you do?You go to the doctor!

I see… the problem appears to be that you have no skin!

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

oDoctors who worked specifically with the plagueoHired by cities to

handle the huge number of sick citizensoVERY WELL PAID

SOLUTION: Plague Doctors

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

SOLUTION: Plague DoctorsSo, what top secret methods did these guys use that

made them so awesome and valuable?

I’ll have to use

science!

Ciao Ezio, I’ve got fresh caught

leeches today!

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

They would lance the buboes and try to

“bleed out” the disease from their patients -(their idea being that

disease was caused by “bad blood” and that

the only way to cure the patient was to get rid of

the blood)

SOLUTION: Plague Doctors

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

And what about the nose?o It held scented

oils and spices that were believed to “purify” the air

o It also cut the odor of working with all of those diseased and dying people

You mean it does

something besides look awesome?

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

What’s happening here?

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

SOLUTION: Blaming (and burning) Jewso Death rates in the Jewish population were

lowero Jews were blamed for spreading the plague

by poisoning water supplies

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

oSome confessed after being tortured and then the entire Jewish population of the city was burned alive

SOLUTION: Blaming (and burning) Jews

This is a perfect example of why torture doesn’t work!

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

oPeople who believed that the plague was sent as punishment by God

oWhipped themselves to suffer for humankind to try to rid the world of the plague

SOLUTION: Flagellants

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

Let’s take a look at the effects:

USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

I’ll be stamping these as part of your classwork so please…

Using the reading titled LASTING

EFFECTS OF THE BLACK PLAGUE, pull out the main ideas and write them on your

handout!

The Black Plague:________________________________________________________

The big number:

100,000,000 dead“They ate lunch with

their friends and dinner with their ancestors”

A Quiz?!?!________________________________________________________

USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

OPEN-NOTE QUIZ!Use all of your notes and handouts on

the Middle Ages in Europe to answer the questions on your quiz.

As long as you’ve been here and have been doing your work,

there’s no need to make any faces like this…

We’re done!________________________________________________________

Thank you for all your hard work today!

Make sure to put your notebooks in the crateand your folders in folders, please!