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Bellringer1. List 3 deadly diseases that are scary.

2. Which scares you the most and why?

Title: Deadliest Pandemics

#3 BR OPTIC

Boy Scout reading

page 335 Black Death

• Brought from China along the Silk Road

Page 360

If your husband, wife or child was infected with the Plague

• Would you?

A. Stay and take care of them.

B. Leave them forever

C. Leave them for a few weeks and come back

D. Something else

• Kent, England

Assignment: My spouse has the plague

• Imagine you live in Rome in 1350 and your spouse has contracted the plague. Write a letter to your relatives describing what is happening, how it started and what you plan on doing about it.

• Must be at least 5 sentences.

Bellringer1. Which diseases

are no longer scary today?

2. Which diseases are scarier

today?

With your partner• Black Plague killed 30-50% of the population of

Europe

• 5 ways life would change if Ebola killed 30% of the US population

Video clip

Modern Plague Assignment• Write a letter to President Obama about this video

clip and what you think should be done about it. 2 paragraphs, 1st describing the problem, 2nd on how we could solve it

• Options:• US could give Madagascar medical equipment• US could send Madagascar doctors• US could give Madagascar $1 billion• US could build roads• US could do nothing• US could do something else

Assignment: Create a health pamphlet for people during the 1300’s about the

Bubonic Plague

Cover page: picture of Bubonic Plague

Page 2: How you can get the Bubonic Plague, + symptoms

Page 3: How to prevent yourself from getting the Bubonic Plague

Page 4: How the Bubonic Plague was a disaster for Europe in the 1300’s, stats & who was blamed