1 If you knew you didnt have long to live how would you choose to spend your time Activity 11 Write Discuss Share Key Information The Black death arrived from central Asia to afflict Europe Middle East and North Africa ID: 915858
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THE BLACK DEATH
Slide2Slide3Activity 1
If you knew you didn’t have long to live, how would you choose to spend your time?
Slide4Activity 1.1
Write
Discuss
Share
Slide5Key Information
“The Black death arrived
from central Asia to afflict Europe, Middle East, and North Africa”
Slide6Key Information 1.1
“Carried by infected fleas that infested black rats, clothing, bedding, or human body hair”
Slide7Slide8Key Information 1.2
“Bubonic Plague, the most common form of the disease, killed people in three to five days”
Slide9Key Information 1.3
“It began with high fever climbing to 105 degrees, then caused convulsions, vomiting, and agonizingly painful swellings”
Slide10ZOMBIES!
Slide11Key Information 1.5
“All in all, during the initial half-century or so of recurring outbreaks, about one-third to one-half of the population died in areas the plague reached”
Slide12Statistic
“It is estimated that the Black Death killed 50
m
illion people”
“Which equates to about 60 % of the total population of Europe”
Slide1360 % !
Slide14Key Information 1.6
“Priests often failed to live up to their idealized image as selfless individuals”
Slide15Key Information 1.7
“Historians describe the mindset as swinging between the pole of frantic pleasure seeking to the pole of ardent religious faith, which often tipped towards fanaticism”
Slide16Activity 2
Keeping this morning’s writing exercise in mind, write and reflect on the following:
Slide17QUESTION
If the black death swept through Santa Fe, would you turn to “frantic pleasure seeking,” or would you turn to “ardent religious faith”?
Slide18Activity 2
Pleasure
Seekers on one side /
People of faith on the other
Slide19Instructions
Discuss amongst 2 big groups why you made your choice, and then elect 2 representatives from each side to come to the middle of the class to debate one another
Slide20Activity 3
Split up into groups of 4 and look over the following handout:
Slide21Activity 3
Read
the advice on how to avoid the plague
As you read, do the following:
For each recommendation, circle each with the following designation:
G for good
B for bad
C for contradictory
Slide22Crash Course!
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