Extension Activity
The following activity tests the students capability to use information in a modern day setting.
- Worksheet 1 sets the scene for pupils in 1348. The activities ask them to consider the horrible symptoms of the illness.
- Worksheet 2 asks pupils to consider some of the crazy cures and plague preventatives used by people in the 14th Century and to write a letter of advice to a friend in a town stricken by the plague.
- Worksheet 3 introduces the plague of 1665.
- Worksheet 4 is a sheet of cards for photocopying. Pupils must sort the cards into causes and effects of the plague. Following this, ask them to sort their cards into long and short-term effects.
Download the attachment and attempt all the worksheets in the Instructions section of Syllabis iWizard.