Black Death

Designing a Leaflet

Lesson 1

Aims

• To create a leaflet about the symptoms of the Black Death using text, images and colours

• To evaluate the suitability of your leaflet in terms of audience and purpose

• To explain how you created your leaflet, the choices you made and

Task 1

• You will create a poster about the symptoms of the Black Death to scare people so that they did not catch it.

• You must use Microsoft Publisher to create your leaflet.

• You should use your own knowledge, information and pictures from the internet to devise your leaflet.

Advice and Help

• You are aiming to frighten people – so pick the right font, text colour and to do this. You will need to use lots of reds and blacks – remember this is the black death, not the nice pretty pink and purple thing death.

• The best bet to get information is to use a search engine such as Google to get pictures. Ask for help if you are not sure how to transfer a picture onto a document.

• You have the whole of this lesson to do this task.

Advice and Help

• Use the internet and the Black Death Symptoms Worksheet as sources of information for your leaflet.

• Video tutorials to help you use publish are available at the website below:

http://www.teach-ict.com/software/publisher/publisher.htm

Black Death

Designing a Leaflet

Lesson 2

Task 2

• You should of now completed your leaflet make sure you have saved it.

• A local doctors surgery has asked you to change your leaflet so they can use it to give information to their patients.

• Doctors do not want people to be frightened but they want to let them know about the symptoms of the Black Death.

Task 2

• Change your original leaflet to meet this new purpose.

• When you have done this open the Black Death Evaluation Worksheet and answer the questions.

Extended Plenary

• Make sure you have saved both leaflets you have created and you have finished the evaluation worksheet.

• You can now upload your original leaflet to a Studywiz gallery. This will allow you to peer assess your classmates work.

Extended Plenary

• When assessing each others work it is important to give information that will help your classmates get better.

• Follow these simple steps:– What did you think of the leaflet?

• Excellent, Good or Satisfactory

– Why do you like about the leaflet?• Use of text, images and colour• Audience and Purpose

– How could the leaflet be improved?• Use of text, images and colour• Audience and Purpose