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Bellringer1. List 3 deadly diseases that are scary.
2. Which scares you the most and why?
Title: Deadliest Pandemics
#3 BR OPTIC
Boy Scout reading
page 335 Black Death
• Brought from China along the Silk Road
Page 360
If your husband, wife or child was infected with the Plague
• Would you?
A. Stay and take care of them.
B. Leave them forever
C. Leave them for a few weeks and come back
D. Something else
• Kent, England
Assignment: My spouse has the plague
• Imagine you live in Rome in 1350 and your spouse has contracted the plague. Write a letter to your relatives describing what is happening, how it started and what you plan on doing about it.
• Must be at least 5 sentences.
Bellringer1. Which diseases
are no longer scary today?
2. Which diseases are scarier
today?
With your partner• Black Plague killed 30-50% of the population of
Europe
• 5 ways life would change if Ebola killed 30% of the US population
Video clip
Modern Plague Assignment• Write a letter to President Obama about this video
clip and what you think should be done about it. 2 paragraphs, 1st describing the problem, 2nd on how we 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 Plague
Cover page: picture of Bubonic Plague
Page 2: How you can get the Bubonic Plague, + symptoms
Page 3: How to prevent yourself from getting the Bubonic Plague
Page 4: How the Bubonic Plague was a disaster for Europe in the 1300’s, stats & who was blamed