★ Inquiry DBQ Series · #6
The Black Death DBQ
How did trade turn a disease into a disaster?
How did trade turn a disease into a disaster? Students read survivors' accounts, trace the plague on a map, and use population and wage data to build an argument.
Grade 7World Civilizations 600–1600Google Slides3 class periods
License: one teacher and their own students.
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What's included
- Teacher presentation (16 slides) with speaker notes
- Full DBQ packet (25 pages): hook, background essay, documents with analysis questions, sourcing organizer, bucketing and outline, writing task, 4-point rubric, teacher guide with answer key and sample essay
- Scaffolded version (10 pages): shorter excerpts, vocabulary support and sentence starters, with its own answer key
The documents
- Boccaccio, The Decameron
- De’ Mussis on the siege of Caffa
- Ibn al-Wardi on the plague
- Map of the plague’s spread
- Population and wage data
- Ragusa’s first quarantine law
Good to know
- Class time
- 3 periods of 45–50 minutes
- Pages
- 51 total
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 7: 7.G.HI.2, 7.E.ST.4, 7.I.CC.3, 7.I.Q, 7.I.UE, 7.I.CC