Pupils’ attention is focused on the Great Plague of 1665. They consider the likely efficacy of methods used to combat the plague and then ask themselves whether any progress at all has been made in the 300 or so years between the plagues, using a range of sources to arrive at their conclusions.
Learning objectives
- Pupils are aware of limits to people’s medical knowledge even 300 years after the Black Death
- Pupils are able to spot similarities and differences between the way people reacted to and attempted to control, the Great Plague and the Black Death
- They can make comments about the rate of medical progress over nearly 320 years, grasping that progress at this time, compared to later is very slow
Introduction
Explain that there were a number of plagues after the Black Death but the really big, and last major one was in 1665 and wiped out nearly
