Transcript The Black Death

Bellwork
Please take out your notebooks and a
pen or pencil.
DISCUSS IN YOUR GROUPS:
Think about the Plague. How do you
think people reacted to such a disease
in the Middle Ages? How do people
react to contagious diseases today?
The Black Death
 How would you describe the mood of the
painting?
 What are the people carrying in the painting?
Cornell Notes
 Each person in your group will be
assigned one topic of the Plague:
Introduction; Spread and Impact;
European Response; and Effects.
 Assign roles and read the documents and
complete your section of the Cornell
Notes to share with your group.
Introduction
 Greatest disaster
 Caused by Yersinia Pestis (bacteria)
 Can infect blood (septicemic); lungs
(pneumonic); lymph nodes (bubonic)
 Spread by fleas on rats
 Moved from Asia to Europe
 25-50% mortality rate
Spread and Impact of the
Black Death
 1346-1351
 Once it reached port cities, it moved inland quickly
 2/3 people died
 Worse in urban areas (because there were more rats)
 Wealthy people died at a lower rate (because there were less rats
and had better nutrition)
 There was no connection between sanitation and disease
 All treatments were fruitless
Response to Black Death
 No germ theory
 Some doctors refused to treat patients
 Blamed the supernatural
 Flagellants – punished themselves
 Scapegoats – blaming Jews and killing
them
Effects
Survivors inherited
wealth/average wealth increased
Breakdown of feudalism/labor
shortages
Changes in medical studies and
practices
Bellwork
 Please take out your Black Death Notes from
Friday. Absent on Friday? Please get your copy
from the back, last folder in Week 11.
 Please discuss the right-hand column of your notes
(questions, comments, connections) and complete
the final impression section at the bottom of your
graphic organizer. Be prepared to discuss!
 Finally, anyone want to volunteer for Current
Event this week?!
PSA
 Students will create a “Public Service
Announcement Poster” that may could
have appeared during the middle ages.
 public service announcement is a
message in the public interest with the
objective of raising awareness, changing
public attitudes and behavior towards a
social issue.
 Should focus on symptoms, spread,
prevention of the disease