Tudor Medicine

Part of instructional writing we created Tudor medicines. The children created their own instructions and recipe for a cure for the Black Plague using vivid descriptions, adverbs, imperative verbs and time connectives. The following day in groups, I gave the children 7 ingredients to which they had to describe (water and red dye for blood, glue and green dye for phlegm, teeth sweets, vinegar for urine, bi carb for crushed bones - reaction with vinegar, bay leaves for herbs and mini eggs for whatever they wanted) on post-it notes. In groups they planned before mixing and writing into books.