Learn about the classic public square, where people assembled together as a whole to debate the issues of the day.
Learn about the most-feared weapon of the 20th century.
Learn how laws surrounding public sanitation systems have helped reduce disease and make cities cleaner.
Ideal for Grade 12 English, this resource uses Camus’ classic novel to build understandings about disease, laws, and human decency.
Eula Biss. On Immunity: An Inoculation. Graywolf Press, 2014.
Nicholas A. Christakis. Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live. Hachette Book Group, 2020.
Mark Honigsbaum. The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
John Fabian Witt. American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19. Yale University Press, 2020.
“The only means of fighting a plague is—common decency”
– Albert Camus, The Plague