As Part of year 10 Humanities this term were were able to research a project of our own, and to create an outcome and to showcase at a final exhibition.

The topic that my group has chosen to research is the Black death through its historical, geographical and economic impacts of the Bubonic plague on Europe. Our Main focuses are economics (effect of plague on Europe’s economy), geography (Spread of the plague over time in Europe) and history (history of Bubonic plague).

We are going to be presenting our research through a news report. Tis report is going to be a lookback on specific events, but looking at specific groups within the Black death and how these groups responded to the Plague.

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Timeline

Week 1

Tue

Period 1

• Collect information from sources needed for my characters
  • Research more if needed
• Let Ms Bottomley know timeline

Period 2

• Continue research if not finished
• Group check in
• Make sure prts 8 + 9 is completed in booklet

Wed

• Sort information into characters
  • economics reporter
  • main reporter
  • plague doctor
• Start brainstorming ideas of how script will go with group
• Start completing prts 10 + 11

Fri

• group meeting
  • check how much everyone has done
  • feedback
• Start planning for script with group
• Have prts 10 + 11 from booklet completed

Week 2

Tue

Period 1

• Start completing prt 12 of booklet
  • insert reflections
• Check marking rubric
• Group chat

Period 2

• Start writing script
• Collect other group member’s character backgrounds
  • needed for script
• Start keeping notes for reflection
• Start thinking of of costumes

Wed

• start writing progress update
• continue writing script
• check up with Ms Bottomley
• Start Brainstorming for prt 13
• Find costumes

Fri

• continue Brainstorming for prt 13
• Collect and produce feedback
• Take all continuous thoughts from peer feedback
• Continue writing script
• Group chat
  • who’s doing what
  • most important thing needed to be completed
• continue finding costumes
• Finish script

Progress Updates

Week 1

Steps completed so far

Steps that need to be done on weekend

Summary

So far, I have been following the plan of our timeline and the booklet closely, making sure all members of our group are in the loop. Currently, it has been a bit hard to keep in touch with one of my group members, but when they arrive back (on Friday) I can get them back into the loop. It will take time to get everybody’s research curated, but it is one of the most important parts to our project, as it is where we are going to present our information. We have our idea, we have our plan, we have our timeline. Now, we just have to give our all to find good information for our news report

Week 2

Steps completed so far

• Collected all information needed for my characters
• Started writing script for news report
• Completed Questions
• Started forming feedback for other groups
• The feedback we got on our last progress update was good but it made us realise that we need to include a bit more of the impact of the plague on Europe at the time. We could fix this by incorporating a section in our tv show which outlines the effect it had on people at the time, this could be something like a lifestyle segment. As a group we are now writing our scripts based on the research we individually collected on our characters. We have also started to pick out our costumes based on the characters we are in the show, this includes things like flagellants and peasants. We have decided to make a modern version of the plague in the show but still the same outcomes, this means that instead of having a farmer/peasant we are having a tradie and we are changing other aspects of the show to make it more interesting. Overall, we are working well as a group and we’re collaborating effectively as well as sharing the load around evenly.