Timeline For 1600 Activity
Timeline For 1600 Activity
Timeline For 1600 Activity
Name: _____________________________
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Each learner is required to find out at least 8 facts regarding the event they have been given.
2. Each fact should be a complete idea which is fascinating and educational.
3. The facts should be presented in a creative way that is both professional and eye catching.
The facts should be included in “a five paragraph essay” format.
4. Each learner needs to present their event on an A4 piece of black paper folded in half.
5. The front cover – PRINTED on BRIGHT paper – Event and date. On the outside- back cover
a coloured illustration of the event.
a. America - Red b. Africa – Orange
c. Europe – Purple d. Australia – Yellow
e. Asia - Green
FRONT COVER BACK COVER
1665
Black Plague
kills 75000 in
London
6. Inside the folded cover write a page essay recording at least 8 - 10 quality facts about the
event. The essay should be recorded IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
7. Underneath the facts record a bibliography of at least 2 references and your full name and
class.
The London
Plague of
1665
In the year 1665 death came calling on the
city of London. Death in the form of plague.
LAYOUT OF FACTS: People called it the Black Death, black for the
colour of the tell-tale lumps that foretold its
Heading presence in a victim's body, and death for
the inevitable result.
One full A4 size paper. The plague germs were carried by fleas
which lived as parasites on rats.
Size font 11 – Arial or Tahoma
Although it had first appeared in Britain in
or Calibri. 1348, the islands were never totally free of
plague, but it was like an unpleasant
1.15 line spacing possibility that people just learned to live
with while they got on with their business.