1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Black Death
Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Black Death Alphabox Chart
Take lots of details in as many boxes as you can!

3. Black Death Vocabulary

9. The Culprits
Yersinia Pestis
Common Flea
Rat

10. The Famine of
By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate.
A population crisis developed.
Climate changes in Europe produced three years of crop failures between because of excessive rain.
As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died.
One consequence of starvation & poverty was susceptibility to disease.

11. 1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople!

12. Black Death comes to Europe
Watch the video and pay special attention to how the plague traveled!
Next, analyze the article!

14. Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.
The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.

15. Lancing a Buboe

16. The Disease Cycle Human is infected!
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria.
Bacteria
multiply in
flea’s gut.
Human is infected!
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound.
Flea’s gut clogged with bacteria.

17. Medieval Art & the Plague

18. The Danse Macabre

19. Medieval Art & the Plague
Bring out your dead!

20. Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.

21. Boccaccio in The Decameron
The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors.

22. Attempts to Stop the Plague
“Leeching”
A Doctor’s Robe

23. Attempts to Stop the Plague
Flagellanti: Self-inflicted “penance” for our sins!

24. Attempts to Stop the Plague
Pogroms against the Jews
“Golden Circle” obligatory badge
“Jew” hat

25. Death Triumphant !: A Major Artistic Theme

26. A Little Macabre Ditty
“A sickly season,” the merchant said, “The town I left was filled with dead, and everywhere these queer red flies crawled upon the corpses’ eyes, eating them away.” “Fair make you sick,” the merchant said, “They crawled upon the wine and bread. Pale priests with oil and books, bulging eyes and crazy looks, dropping like the flies.”

27. A Little Macabre Ditty (2)
“I had to laugh,” the merchant said, “The doctors purged, and dosed, and bled; “And proved through solemn disputation “The cause lay in some constellation. “Then they began to die.” “First they sneezed,” the merchant said, “And then they turned the brightest red, Begged for water, then fell back. With bulging eyes and face turned black, they waited for the flies.”

28. A Little Macabre Ditty (3)
“I came away,” the merchant said, “You can’t do business with the dead. “So I’ve come here to ply my trade. “You’ll find this to be a fine brocade…”
And then he sneezed……….!

29. The Mortality Rate
35% - 70%
25-50 million dead !!!

30. What were the economic and social effects of the Black Death??
Reaction
Complete the tri- chart using the Social and Economic Influences of the Black Death.

31. Pay attention to the details in the song lyrics!

32. Analyze and Sequence: Working with your partner, read through the text and match the subtitles with the pieces of text. Then sequence the article. Glue it on your paper and explain your thinking!

33. In your groups, use the article “Dark Death” to create a concept map of the cause and effects and the progression of symptoms of the Bubonic Plague. Follow the guidelines on the next few slides!

34. Causes: Effects: Event: Bubonic Plague Concept Map Death Family
Faith
True Reason::
Event:
Bubonic Plague
Economy
Blame
Games
Concept Map

35. Progression of Symptoms
How did the disease progress? Use details (text evidence) from the text to complete the flow map. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Death

36. Mass Grave Found in London

37. The Plague Documentary