lunadelcorvo: (Medieval Scholar)
: : : L u n a d e l C o r v o : : : ([personal profile] lunadelcorvo) wrote 2025-02-05 01:01 pm (UTC)

Not really, I lean pretty hard into the 'never use the term Dark ages in my hearing' approach, and focus on the growth in the 11th-12th C. I do shock the heck out of them when I start the Black Death though - I have them write ten names of people they know, then have them cross off seven of them at random. I then say 'now imagine all those people died in the last year. Welcome to the Black Death!' I knocked them back a bit, but in a way they seem to get a charge out of. We do have one teacher who goes full into the torture stuff though - there really is no concrete curriculum for History/Social Studies.

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