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Lesson Topic: The Black Death Length of Class Period: 95 mins

Course: World History Grade Level: 9

TERMINAL BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVE
State the terminal objective (including content and behavior):

Each student will be able to create a black death diary entry using the class PowerPoint and contemporary accounts learned
in class.
CURRICULUM/STANDARDS
List all appropriate national, state or district curriculum or content standards that align to this lesson.
Strand 2 Concept 1 PO 5 a, b, c, d; Strand 2 Concept 3 PO 4 d.

ELL STANDARDS AND ACCOMMODATIONS

List the language objective for listening, speaking, reading and writing: Arizona ELP Standards
[http://www.azed.gov/english-language-learners/elps/], as well as ELL accommodations, vocabulary, strategies:
ELL Writing Standard IV, Writing Standard V, Reading Standard IV, Listening Standard I.
Use visuals, bilingual dictionaries, give extra time to turn in assignment, shorten length of diary entry, read directions aloud,
alternate response such as completing assignment orally instead of in writing, give frequent breaks, work with other students
when evaluating primary documents, write essential vocabulary on white board.

SPECIAL EDUCATION ACCOMMODATIONS

List accommodations you will make for special education students:
Give instructions orally give more time to finish assignment, provide notes of PP presentation, student seated near board,
give frequent breaks, allow to work with other students when evaluating primary sources, write essential vocabulary on
white board.

GATE/EXTENSION
List enrichment/extension activities you will provide for students:

HOMEWORK
If there is homework following this lesson, list it here:
Diary entries are for homework if not finished during class.

RESOURCES/MATERIALS
List all resources that you will need to teach this lesson:
Copies of primary source documents, laptop for PowerPoint, PowerPoint, Projector, white board, Black Diary activity sheet
with written directions, Cornell notes.

Lesson Sequence
The Task Analysis must include the specific sub-topic. The first step in your Task Analysis should be your BW/Anticipatory
Set.
The last step in your Task Analysis should match your terminal behavioral objective for the lesson. (Add more rows to this
chart as needed.)

TIME TASK ANALYSIS TEACHING STRATEGY WHAT ARE THE STUDENTS

(Sub-tasks/topics) (BW, lecture, lab, group work, DOING?
handout, etc) (Active participation, Int. Closure)
5 Evaluating Student background BW: Write Down what you know or  Ss answer BW
mins knowledge of the Black Death have heard about the Black Death.

10 Emergence of the plague and PowerPoint: Beginnings of the  Ss take notes

mins movement into Europe plague and spread.  IC: Think-Pair-Share. How
was the plague able to spread
so quickly?
 10 Symptoms of the plague, types of
mins plague, death rate, human costs.
10 Life in Europe during the plague,
mins reactions to it, and quality of life in
Europe
25 Contemporary accounts from the
mins time of the Black Death
35 Students will create diary entries
mins writing as someone who is alive
during the Black Death. There
must be a minimum of 3 diary
entries with each being at least 3
sentences long. Students are to use
the PowerPoint and contemporary
sources to help create their diary
entries.
PowerPoint: What the plague looked
like, types of plague, how people
died, death rate across Europe.
PowerPoint: Flagellants, economy of
Europe during plague, Guy de
Chauliac, decline of feudal system.
Class handout of contemporary
sources. Read contemporary
accounts in small groups.
Handout: Black Death Diary
Individually write diary entries.
 Ss take notes
 IC: Define the different types
of plague in your notes
(bubonic, pneumonic,
septicemic) and explain how
they were different.
 Ss take notes
 Think-Pair-Share. How do you
think the Black Death changed
life for people in Europe?
 Ss in small groups of 2-3 will
read excerpts from
contemporary accounts of the
Black Death.
 Group analysis: What do these
accounts say about life during
the Black Death?
 Independent Practice. Pretend
that you are alive during the
Black Death and write 3 diary
entries describing your life by
using the information you have
learned in class today. Each
entry must include at least 3
facts from today’s lesson.
Finish as homework if you do
not finish in class.