Happy Friday, future leaders! For today’s warm-up please do the following:

1. Happy Friday, future leaders! • For today’s warm-up please do the following: • Grab your student log and notebook from the crates. • Take out your homework - (yesterday’s recruitment poster) • Write in today’s date and objective on your student log. • Open your notebook and respond to the following prompt: • Make effort, not excuses. “Ring around the Rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down!” This is a pretty old nursery rhyme. What do you think the lyrics mean? Write one full paragraph. USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

2. Happy Friday, future leaders! • For today’s warm-up please do the following: • Grab your student log and notebook from the crates. • Draw an X through today’s homework box. • Write in today’s date and objective on your student log. • Open your notebook and respond to the following prompt: • Make effort, not excuses. “Ring around the Rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down!” This is a pretty old nursery rhyme. What do you think the lyrics mean? Write one full paragraph. USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

3. World History with Mr. Golden __________________________________________________________ The Middle Ages – The Black Death

4. Objective: ________________________________________________________ FLWBATexplore and describe the effects of the Black Plague on world history

5. Agenda: ________________________________________________________ • Review • Black Death notes • Guided reading • Study time… • Gasp! A quiz?!?! • - We’re done!

6. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ The basics: Sometimes called the Black Death, the Plague, or the Bubonic Plague I’m super infected with a deadly virus! Dern thing was hiding in my moustache! FLEA BITES RAT MAN DIES FLEA BITES MAN Now we are too!

7. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ CAUSES: Overpopulation Europeans were farming all of the land that they could Populations grew out of control

8. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ CAUSES: Unsanitary Conditions People rarely bathed There was no public sanitation Populations cramped tightly into cities Don’t mind me, just pouring my poop out on the street. A lot of filthy people create a lot of trash… what’s attracted to giant piles of trash laying around in cities? RATS & FLEAS carried the plague and inflected people when they were bitten I’m going to kill you!

9. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ …and you thought it was unsanitary BEFORE!

10. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________

11. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ So, how’d it get to Europe? Each one of the dots and lines is showing a plague outbreak Notice how it follows right along these trade routes?

12. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ CAUSES: The Crusades The disease travels with merchants along trade routes from China to Europe Soldiers fighting in the Crusades brought the disease back with them Sure, it’ll kill a few million people, but just look at this imported silk rug!

13. Any ideas on why Poland dodged the plague bullet?

14. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ Solutions? Europe during the Middle Ages isn’t a place of “learning” and most things get explained through superstition…

15. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ Problem: Solution: You’re sick – whatdo you do? You go to the doctor! I see… the problem appears to be that you have no skin!

16. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ SOLUTION: Plague Doctors • Doctors who worked specifically with the plague • Hired by cities to handle the huge number of sick citizens • VERY WELL PAID

17. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ SOLUTION: Plague Doctors So, what top secret methods did these guys use that made them so awesome and valuable? I’ll have to use science! Ciao Ezio, I’ve got fresh caught leeches today!

18. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ SOLUTION: Plague Doctors They would lance the buboes and try to “bleed out” the disease from their patients - (their idea being that disease was caused by “bad blood” and that the only way to cure the patient was to get rid of the blood)

19. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ And what about the nose? • It held scented oils and spices that were believed to “purify” the air • It also cut the odor of working with all of those diseased and dying people You mean it does something besides look awesome?

20. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ What’s happening here?

21. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ SOLUTION: Blaming (and burning) Jews Death rates in the Jewish population were lower Jews were blamed for spreading the plague by poisoning water supplies

22. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ SOLUTION: Blaming (and burning) Jews • Some confessed after being tortured and then the entire Jewish population of the city was burned alive This is a perfect example of why torture doesn’t work!

23. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ SOLUTION: Flagellants • People who believed that the plague was sent as punishment by God • Whipped themselves to suffer for humankind to try to rid the world of the plague

24. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ Let’s take a look at the effects: Using the reading titled LASTING EFFECTS OF THE BLACK PLAGUE, pull out the main ideas and write them on your handout! I’ll be stamping these as part of your classwork so please… USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

25. The Black Plague: ________________________________________________________ The big number: 100,000,000 dead “They ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors”

26. A Quiz?!?! ________________________________________________________ OPEN-NOTE QUIZ! Use all of your notes and handouts on the Middle Ages in Europe to answer the questions on your quiz. As long as you’ve been here and have been doing your work, there’s no need to make any faces like this… USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

27. We’re done! ________________________________________________________ Make sure to put your notebooks in the crate and your folders in folders, please! Thank you for all your hard work today!