25/03/09

The Black Death in Sources

Another Revision Lesson - Wow you lot should do well on your assessment next lesson!

Aim: I can understand what I need to include in my assessment and how to achieve my target grade.

STARTER: Complete these sentences
1)Many people thought the plague was caused by………
2) The real cause of the plague was…..
3) One symptom of the black death is…

TASK 1: Answer the following Questions

1) What symptom of the plague can you see here? (use a keyword!)

2) What does this source tell you about what people thought caused the plague?

3) What does this source tell you about what we now know about what caused the plague?

4) Name two reasons this peasant was angry after the Black Death?

5) Look the sources below. Which do you think is most useful for finding out about the Black Death? Explain why.

Source A
Source B

Source C

EXTENSION
What does this depend on?
Your own knowledge?
What question you are asking? –cause, symptom, what people believed at the time?

6) Can you list some negative consequences of the Black Death?

7)Can you list some positive consequences of the Black Death?

CHECK YOUR LEVELS
Level 3:
•I can give one symptom of the Black Death
•I can describe a source
•I can describe a cause and consequence of the Black Death
Level 4:
•I know some symptoms of the Black Death
•I can describe several examples of what peasant’s thought caused the Black Death
•I can give examples of things that have changed or stayed the same because of the Black Death
•I can give some links between causes and consequences of the Black Death
Level 5:
•I can explain what actually caused the Black Death
•I can explain the consequences of the Black Death
•I can give reasons why some sources may be more useful than others
•I can compare one source to another
Level 6
•I can demonstrate understanding of different interpretations of the Black Death and give reasons for this
•I can explain why one source may be more useful than another
•I can categorise causes and consequences

23/03/09

23/03/09 Black Death Revision Lesson

TASK: First copy all 7 questions into your books. Second, begin to answer each question.
Remember your levels- Level 5 Explain, Level 4 Describe, Level 3 List

QUESTIONS
1. What year did the Black Death come to England?
2. What are the symptoms of the Black Death?
3. What did the Peasants believe caused the Black Death?
4. What do scientists say today, caused the Black Death?
5. In what country did the Black Death originate (start)?
6. How did the Black Death spread?
7. List 4 good & 4 bad results of the Black Death.

ANSWERS
A1. 1348

A2.
• Shaking/ failure of nervous system
• Buboes / Buboes exploding
• Being sick
• Temperature
• Dying
• Rash under the skin

A3.
• The evil planets of Saturn and Mars giving off a bad smell.
• The Jews Poisoning the drinking water.
• A punishment from god.
• The smell from the Buboes when they burst.

A4.
Fleas carried the disease in their stomachs. They lived on rats. When the rat died the flea would move to live on a human. The flea bit the human, giving them the disease.

A5.
China

A6.
The plague was spread by rats or people carrying the infected fleas.

A7.
Good:
Peasant were paid more money.
Peasants had more freedom to move around.
Peasants didn’t have to do their labour services any more.
Peasants had more power.
Bad:
Lots of people had died- people were grieving for their families and friends
Many villages rotted leaving remaining peasants homeless and wandering
There were not enough peasants to farm the land- many went hungry.
People were very fearful that the plague would strike again

Reminder: The ASSESSMENT is on Monday 30/03/09 period 5!

GET REVISING!!

16/03 & 18/03

18/03/09 Was the Black Death a Disaster?

Aim: To understand how the black death changed the lives of medieval peasants

Key words: Consequences- things which happen as a result of an event (eg The Black Death)

Starter:
So far we have ____________ the causes and experiences of the ___________. But how did England ______ as a result? Some people think that the Black Death was a ________ simply because it ______ so many people. Others believe there were some ________ outcomes also.
Word Bank
positive Black Death killed
change investigated disaster


Extension: Can you think how England might have changed after the black death?

Task 1:
Each of you were given a worksheet, it explains some of the effects of the Black Death on the lives of peasants in England.
1.Sort the changes into positive and negative consequences for the peasants.
2. Colour the positive consequences in one colour and the negative ones in another.

Extension:
1. Do you think the Black death was a disaster for peasants a) in the long term? b) in the short term?
2. What was the most important change to peasants lives?
3. Do you think the Black Death was a good thing for the lords and land owners?


Assessment Monday 30/03/09 (write this in your diaries)

Revision/Extension web sites:

http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/bdeath.html

http://www.schoolsnet.com/pls/hot_school/sn_lessons.page_pls_lesson_detail?x=16180339&p_lesson_id=55&p_res_type_id=15

16/03/09 What caused the Black Death?

AIM: To understand what people at the time believed caused the Black Death
Keywords – preventions: things you can do to help avoid catching a disease

Starter: In your books write your answer to the following two questions, based on source A (on worksheet).

1) Can you explain what this picture has to do with the Black Death?
2) How does this picture help you to understand why people, at the time, didn’t link the Black Death to fleas?

Source A: A flea as seen through a microscope

TASK 1: What did people at the time believe could CAUSE and PREVENT the plague? (Worksheet, colouring pencils and glue sticks will be needed)

On your work sheet with speech bubbles you will:

1) YOU MUST ALL: Create a colour key, showing one colour representing causes and another colour to represent preventions. Colour the causes of the plague one colour. Then colour the preventions (ways people believed they could prevent the plague) in another colour.

2) MOST OF YOU SHOULD: Use lines to connect the causes of the plague with the things people did to prevent it.

3) SOME OF YOU COULD: have a go at the extension - Why do you think some people believed that things such as God, the Jews or bad smells caused the Black Death?
Homework: answer the following 2 questions due Wed. 18/03/09
Use the sentence starters if you like

Homework: answer the following 2 questions due Wed. 18/03/09
Use the sentence starters if you like.

1. Some people thought that the Black Death was caused by bad smells. Was this true? Why?

Some people thought that the Black Death was caused by bad smells because …………

2. What could scientists today have recommended people did to prevent catching the plague?

Scientists today would have recommended that people in the 1300’s ………………………..

Level 5
EXPLAIN telling why something is the way it is

Level 4
DESCRIBE telling why people do things, how something happened, etc

Level 3

LIST

10/03/09

What caused the Black Death ?

Aim: To understand what scientists today believe caused the black death.
Key Words: Theory- Someone’s idea about how something works or happens.

Starter: Which of the following were symptoms of the black death? ( and which did I make up) 1.Your nose turned green
2.Lumps called Buboes swelled on your bodies
3.You vomited and had a fever
4.Your toes could drop off
5.You died after the Buboes exploded black slime


Today scientists agree on the causes of the Black death. We are going to look at their THEORY.

Either: Follow your story board. For each step in the process draw a quick pencil sketch illustration.
Or: Create your own story board. Use six steps to explain how scientists today believe the plague spread to England.

Extension: How would knowing about germs have helped people avoid catching the plague?

How the Plague spread through Britain
Draw a quick pencil picture to show what is happening.

1. The Plague was caused by microscopic germs which lived in the bodies of fleas.

2. Fleas lived in the hair of Black Rats.

3. Rats carrying such fleas were brought to England by a French boat in June 1348.

4. The Bubonic plague lived in the stomachs of fleas. When the rats died the fleas moved to Humans.

5. People in 1348 didn’t know about germs. They didn’t keep clean so often had fleas. Once bitten by a flea carrying the plague, the person would die.

6. By 1850, nearly half of all the people in England had died.

04/03/09

Luttrell Psalter

Aim: To use pictures from the Luttrell Psalter to find out about peasants’ lives.
Starter: Copy both columns and draw a line to match column 1 with column 2 connecting the information to the source or sources in which it could be found.

Column 1
What peasants ate.
The work peasants did.
What villages were like.

Column 2
Aerial Photograph
Skeleton
Artefacts

The Luttrell Psalter:

• Illustrated in the early 1300s.


• These pictures show what daily life was like in medieval times.


• There are 309 illustrations in all, commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell to show daily life on his estate.

You will be shown pictures from the Luttrell Psalter.
You have three minutes to look at each one.
In each picture write/describe:
What tools are being used?
What jobs are the peasants doing?

Here are 3 of our 6 slides....

02/03/09

Peasents in Pictures



Aim: To use aerial photographs and Artefacts to further investigate the lives of peasants.



Key Word: Utility – How useful (helpful) a source is for answering a question about the past.





First we drew a picture in our books, of what we would imagine a peasant farmer would have looked like.

We can use artifacts:
We looked at 5 artefacts and described what we thought each object is or might have been used for?

Level 5 – ‘ I can give reasons why a source is more or less useful.’

Put three types of sources we have studied so far from the least to the most useful. (sources - Ariel photographs, skeletons, artefacts)
Explain your reasoning in your book.