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Black Death Artifact

1. Create an artifact to represent the time of the Black Death in Europe.

2. Take the role of one who may or may or may not have the disease.

3. Who are you? What’s your life like? How are you reacting? Do you have a family? What’s happening or has happened to them? What are other people doing around you? How are they reacting? What do you see? What measures are being taken to fight the plague? What works or doesn’t work if anything? What terrible things did some people do to those they may have blamed for the plague? What did people do with all the dead bodies? What might a plague victim have looked like?

4. I will be looking at the following: - Historical accuracy. This is to be done in the time of the Black Death only and entries should reflect only what happened or your research suggests may have taken place - Creativity and effort. Be the person!

5. You have the option of presenting your journal in a non-written form. Some ideas:  Script for a play?  A series of poems?  An infomercial for a  An actual  A song? product that would performance –  A newscast like the be sold to help ward recorded? one from the off the plague  An animated video? ‘Horrible History:  A story  Series of art pieces? Crusades’  Something else?  Comic Strip?   ‘Bring Out Your Dead’ (a chant often heard at night during the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Towns would hire non-infected workers to gather up the dead bodies at night and take them to plague pits for mass burials)  Let’s hope your assignment does not end up in the plague pit of dead assignments.