Eyam Plague Story + Symptoms and Causes

This is a lesson about the plague for year 7.

In the starter I give a sermon in the character of William Mompesson the priest in the town of Eyam retelling the story of the self isolation of the town. I have attached the sermon that I wrote and the accompanying powerpoint for in the background.

This is particularly impactful if you can fashion some sort of pulpit to speak from! I also tend to put on some Church like music when the pupils enter the classroom which I transition into a dramatic sound clip of a creepy version of Ring around the Rosie (I have included a link to this in the notes section of the PP on slide 2!

I then use this to go into a lesson on the causes and symptoms of the plague, making reference to the case of Eyam throughout. I have included the accompanying PowerPoint and the card sort activity which I use later in the lesson. The card sort activity and parts of the PowerPoint were magpied from other sources and not my own creations.