Assignment task: This common nursery rhyme below describes the Bubonic Plague:
"Ring a-round the rosy Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes! We all fall down!"
"Ring a-round the rosy" probably refers to rosary beads which are supposed to provide God's help. Posies are flowers that were used to stop the odor of rotting bodies. Ashes refers to cremation of bodies. "We all fall down" is the final outcome of the plague.
What do we learn about the plague from this nursery rhyme? Why did children sing this nursery rhyme? Explain.