Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Lesson 1

Lesson 1 is about a terrible sickness that resulted in the death of almost half the population of Europe, starting in the year 1347.

What effects would such an event have on the survivors and the whole society? What if such an event happened here now?

Activity

Document: Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 1, Lesson 1

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Reading/Study Guide

Most lessons in this Social Studies 8 course have a Reading/Study Guide at the beginning of the lesson.

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This guide contains questions you will download and complete as you go through the readings assigned for the lesson.

The Reading/Study Guide provides a good review of each lesson and a way to self-check that you are remembering and understanding the important parts of the lesson.

For each lesson, download the Reading/Study Guide before you start the reading or any other instruction for the lesson.

As you go through each lesson, you will see that the Reading/Study Guide follows the lesson.

1. Download the document, Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 1, Lesson 1.
   Please save your work to a file on your desktop so you will have a copy to refer back to.


2. Click on one of the links provided to download the document.
   
• You will then be able to view the Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 1, Lesson 1 worksheet.




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3.  A terrible illness known as the Black Plague or Black Death spread through Europe in the 1300s and devastated the population.
   
   Read page 17 of your textbook. Also, study the picture and its caption on page 16.
   
   
4. Answer the questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
   
   
5. When you are finished, go to the next page.