What we learned last
lesson?
Describe 3 significant things that you
learned last lesson.
Compare your three things in pairs
List at least five significant things
between you.
Your Findings
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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.
Q2.
Q3.
Q4.
What was the Black Death?
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What caused the Black Death? 
What were the symptoms? 
How was it spread?
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Q5. What were the medieval reasons it?
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Q5. What types of protection and cures did
people try?
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Q6. What were the consequences of the Black
Death?
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Q1.
Q2.
Q3.
Q4.
What was the Black Death?

What caused the Black Death? 
What were the symptoms? 
How was it spread?
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Q5. What were the medieval reasons it?
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Q5. What types of protection and cures did
people try?
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Q6. What were the consequences of the Black
Death?
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Q1.
Q2.
Q3.
Q4.
What was the Black Death?
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What caused the Black Death? 
What were the symptoms? 
How was it spread?
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Q5. What were the medieval reasons it?
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Q5. What types of protection and cures did
people try?
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Q6. What were the consequences of the Black
Death?
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Skills
• Work together to achieve targets
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• Improve listening skills 
• Practice note taking
• Develop observation skills
• Develop creativity skills
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Paired
Task
Learning Together
1. Split page into 6 sections of 5 lines each
Draw line then count down 5 lines & draw
next line
2. Copy headings into your 6 sections:
A Where did disease come from? How? Reached
Britain when?
B What was the Black Death?
C Symptoms
D Medieval reasons for disease
E How to stop its spread
F Consequences
Cures
What was the Black Death?
• Black Rats - Rattus
rattus
Symptoms of
Black Death?
3. Task
• Use p42 of ‘Medieval Britain’
• Use p58 of ‘History Through Maps and
Diagrams to 1485’
• Make your own notes for sections A to C
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4. Group Task
• Sort pictures into order of happening
• Be able to give your reasons for putting
them in that order
5. Whole Class
• Listen carefully to me
Bad smells
• Complete section D of task sheet
Blamed
cripples/rich
Position of
planets
Jews
Bad southern
wind
God’s punishment
6. Watch video
• Complete section E of task sheet using
information from 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:
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what you have learned about the Black
Death
However, must be done as if you were actually
there at the time
Pairs: 5 minutes
to brainstorm ideas
Ideas
Newspaper
article
Letter to MP
Poem
Diary entry
of your life
cartoon
Letter to family
Poster/drawing
MP’s speech
in Parliament
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.
Q2.
Q3.
Q4.
What was the Black Death?

What caused the Black Death? 
What were the symptoms? 
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?
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Skills
• Work together to achieve targets

• Improve listening skills 
• Practice note taking
• Develop observation skills
• Develop creativity skills
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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
Beat the Examiner
Design a quiz on this topic
- Straight forward questions?
- Cryptic clues?
- Multiple choice?
- Matching activity + red herrings?
- Crossword puzzle?