Bellringer1. List 3 deadly diseases that are scary.2. Which scares you the most and why?

Title: Deadliest Pandemics

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page 335 Black Death• Brought from China along the Silk Road• Sections: The Black Death – The Plague Spreads• On a paper: What happened? When? Why?

Page 360

• Page 335

• 4 countries

Catholic Europeans• Many thought God was punishing them• Blamed which two groups for the outbreak

• Kent, England

If your husband, wife or child was infected with the Plague

• Would you?A. Stay and take care of them.B. Leave them foreverC. Leave them for a few weeks and come

backD. Something else

Question Matrix game

• Groups of 4• Write 10 questions• Round the room ask• 1st place: 5 points• 2nd place: 3 points• 3rd place: 2 point

ties eliminate lower places

Assignment: Silk Road Plague• Think back to our Silk Road business. Write a

letter to your traders in Asia about a) how life has changed in Rome b) how to know if someone has contracted the Black Death. And c) how they can help stop the spread of plague.

• Must be at least 5 sentences.

Assignment: Silk Road Plague• Think back to our Silk Road business. Write a

letter to your traders in Asia about a) how life has changed in Rome b) how to know if someone has contracted the Black Death. And c) how they can help stop the spread of plague.

• Must be at least 5 sentences.

Assignment: Silk Road Plague• Think back to our Silk Road business. Write a

letter to your traders in Asia about a) how life has changed in Rome b) how to know if someone has contracted the Black Death. And c) how they can help stop the spread of plague.

• Must be at least 5 sentences.

Assignment: Silk Road Plague• Think back to our Silk Road business. Write a

letter to your traders in Asia about a) how life has changed in Rome b) how to know if someone has contracted the Black Death. And c) how they can help stop the spread of plague.

• Must be at least 5 sentences.

Assignment: Silk Road Plague• Think back to our Silk Road business. Write a

letter to your traders in Asia about a) how life has changed in Rome b) how to know if someone has contracted the Black Death. And c) how they can help stop the spread of plague.

• Must be at least 5 sentences.

Assignment: My spouse has the plague

• Imagine you live in Rome in 1350 and someone you live with has contracted the plague. Write a letter to your relatives in Paris describing what is happening, how it started and what you plan on doing about it.

• Must be at least 5 sentences.

BellringerCompare both graphs

1. Which 3 diseases are not as deadly

today?2. Which 2 diseases are

deadly today?

On a new sheet of paper:With your partner

• 1300’s: Black Plague killed 30-50% of the population of Europe

• 2010’s?• 5 ways life would change if Ebola killed 30% of

the US population

Video clip

With your partner

• Brainstorm 2 ways the government of Madagascar could help prevent future outbreaks

Modern Plague Assignment• Write a letter to President Obama OR Senator

John McCain about this video clip and what you think should be done about it. 2 paragraphs, 1st describing the problem (who, what, when, where, why), 2nd on how the US could solve it

• Options:• US could give Madagascar medical equipment• US could send Madagascar doctors• US could give Madagascar $1 billion• US could build roads• US could do nothing• US could do something else

Assignment: Create a health pamphlet for people during the 1300’s about the

Bubonic PlagueCover page: picture of Bubonic PlaguePage 2: How you can get the Bubonic Plague, +

symptomsPage 3: How to prevent yourself from getting the

Bubonic PlaguePage 4: How the Bubonic Plague was a disaster

for Europe in the 1300’s, stats & who was blamed