Tag: Black Death

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Writing About Plague

Illustration of people carrying coffins
This is one of the earliest known images of the plague. Drawn in 1349, during the time of the Black Death, it shows people carrying coffins of those who died of the illness in Tournai, a city in what is now Belgium.

Students used multiple sources to draw defensible conclusions about the plague

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Curriculum Historical Thinking History Uncovering History

Using Historical Sources about the Plague

Illustration of cherubs shooting arrows onto people
Illustration from Giovanni Sercambi’s Le croniche di Luccha written from c. 1368 until his death from plague in 1424. Image and caption from Alchetron

After introducing students to the historical processes around understanding plague pandemics yesterday, I guided my classes through primary sources on the Black Death in Europe and the Middle East today. This is such a work in progress that I added documents as the day went on. Like yesterday I used Slides with Pear Deck for […]

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Understanding the Plague

Today, I debuted a new lesson on the Second Plague Pandemic. While it is definitely a work in progress, I was excited to do more than survive the day. For this lesson my goal was for students to understand more about the medieval Eurasian plague, while also wrapping their minds around how the construction of […]