Task:
You are to assume the role of a doctor, priest/nun, or a merchant during the time of the Bubonic Plague. You are to write a diary entry describing the Black Plague from the point of view of your chosen character, describing the sights, sounds and smells of the Bubonic Plague. Be creative- use some of your screenwriting/acting skills. Use the following questions to help you write your diary entry:

How and where did the Bubonic Plague start?
What were the signs and symptoms of the disease?
What are your fears?
What are your hopes?

1. Avoid breathing in the same air as a plague victim.

2. Sit next to a blazing hot fire, (it worked for the Pope in the

summer of 1348).

3. Live in a house sheltered from the wind and keep the window

closed.

4. Attack foreigners and people of a different religion. (Twenty

thousand Jews were burned to death in Strasbourg in 1348).

Explanation:

the answer to number 5 is fort sumter

the monroe doctrine is the best known u.s. policy toward the western hemisphere. buried in a routine annual message delivered to congress by president james monroe in december 1823, the doctrine warns european nations that the united states would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.