This homework assignment asks students to create a survival guide for living in London during the plague of 1665. It provides context that plagues in 1603, 1609, 1625 and 1636 killed thousands in London, with the 1665 plague killing over 100,000. As the cause was unknown, various remedies were attempted. Students must explain what would happen if infected, how people tried to cure it, and details about plague doctors in their survival guide. The assignment is accompanied by a grading rubric assessing effort, research, explanation, detail, spelling and more.

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Level 5 and 6
Key Stage 3-Year 8
History Homework Booklet
Term 5: What was life like in Stuart London?
The Plague
Your Task: In 1603 a plague had killed 40,000; in 1609, 12,00, in
1625, 35,000 and in 1636, 10,000. In 1665 it would kill even more! The
plague claimed over 100,000 victims. People did not know what
caused the plague and they came up with lots of different theories
about why the plague started. As they did not know what started it
they also did not know how to treat it. As result lots of different
remedies were created by people to try and stop the plague. In
lessons we have looked at the effect that the plague had on London
in 1665. Your task is to now look at life during the plague of 1665 in
more detail and create a survival guide for a person at this time.
You need to explain how they can avoid catching the plague in
England in 1665. You must include:
• What happened to you when you
got the plague
• How people tried to cure the
Plague
• Information about the plague
doctor

2. Task 1

3. Task 2

4. Key Stage 3- Year 8 History Homework
Term 5- What was life like in Stuart London? The Plague
These grades are
recorded in GO.
Current Grade:
Poor/ Good/ Satisfactory/ Excellent
What you did well:
You have made excellent judgements
using research and have explained it
well.
You have made excellent judgements
using research
You have picked out good information
to talk about.
You have picked out some
information from research.
Your spelling, punctuation, and
grammar in this work is excellent.
Your work is very well presented.
Your work shows excellent effort.
Your work shows some good effort.
Targets to improve further:
You need to give more detail when
explaining what you have found out
from research.
Make sure all of your research is in
your own words.
You need to give evidence from the
research to support your points.
You need to cover more points.
You need to explain the judgements
that you make from research.
You need to read information more
carefully.
Take more care with your spelling,
punctuation and grammar.
Take more care with the presentation
of your work.
Your work shows it would benefit
from more effort.
Student Response
Note here anything you are not sure about:
What are your personal targets:
Miss Limm