I need some inspiration for writing a diary about the Great Plague.?
My assignment is to write a 5-paged diary about The Great Plague.
My plan is to be a girl who lives in London England. Around 16 - 25 years old?
I need some inspiration on how this diary could work.
Like how could I start and end it? How would SHE feel at the momment? What could the climax be?
Most importantly, it needs to be INTERESTING. 
I'm planning on to burn it to make it look like it was from the 1400's.
Could anyone give me some ideas, tips, inspiration on how I could do this assignment?
Any help would be appreciated!
The Great Plague was 1665 and singeing it would be a good idea because you could pretend it had been nearly destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666 which wiped out most of old London town, including St. Paul's Cathedral.
You should talk about happy events at first, like maybe visiting the Theatre with your family, they had only been re-opened in 1660 after 11 years of being closed under Cromwell's reign. Talk about how colourful and vibrant London was at the time, but it was very dirty too, with rats and all kinds of waste in the streets. The streets were very narrow and the house very close together. Have brothers and sisters, you can have one or more die. Begin to notice things, people becoming ill, blotches appearing on skin, terrible coughs, corpses removed from house under darkness. Maybe you would be the only one to survive and have to fend for yourself. Talk about how scared you are, how you don't know what is happening.
Once the disease took a hold it spread with frightening speed. Those who could, the wealthy, left London for the comparative safety of the countryside. No such option existed for those who lived in the slums. Any family that had one member infected by the plague was locked in their home for forty days and nights. A red cross was painted on the door to warn others of the plight of those in the house. No one was allowed in except ‘nurses’.
The ‘nurses’ were local women with no training whatsoever but they got paid to visit the homes of plague victims to see how they were getting on and to take food to them if the victims could afford to pay for it.The shouted phrase "bring out your dead" was heard with great frequency in September 1665. The collected bodies were then put on a cart and taken to a mass burial pit.
At the end you survive and go and live with an Aunt or other relative.
Try not to use modern sayings and English. You would be thou, a week was "a sennight" ie seven nights.Yours is thine. Make sure you give yourself and old fashioned name, Alice, Mary, Kate, Lucy, Anne, something like that.
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