Here are two different types of document collections to use when teaching the Fourteenth Century Plague pandemic, known sometimes as the “Black Death.”
Multiple Day Lesson
The DBQs here began as distance learning lessons in the Spring of 2021. I have continued to use a version of that assignment with on-level World History students, as a “DBQ for Everyone.” I have presented this lesson as a professional development session which aims to provide participants with a better understanding of historical content and pedagogy.
Lesson and Assessment Materials
- Understanding Plague slides
- Working with Sources slides
- Planning to write document
- Writing! document
On Demand DBQ
I have also taken excerpts from primary source documents to create a DBQ for students to write on demand, in class. In the style of an AP World History DBQ.