Fever 1793

Yellow Fever in 1793 Colonial Philadelphia

Watch the videos then be ready to discuss the following questions.  Feel free to research Yellow Fever and add any additional information you find in a comment below.

• What is Yellow Fever? 
• What are the symptoms? 
• Where did it originate? 
• How did people treat it?
• What impact did it have on colonial Philadelphia?
• How is it prevented?
• Is Yellow Fever something we need worry about in North Dakota in 2015?

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Fever 1793 Building Background

Final Interactive Journal Assignment

We will read "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe together as a class.
Click here to access the poem: http://www.online-literature.com/poe/36/

After reading, we will use Google Draw to create a venn diagram comparing and contrasting Yellow Fever 1793 to "The Masque of the Red Death."

Click below to make a copy of the template:
 https://docs.google.com/a/mygfschools.org/drawings/d/1-fHHPFRgB3E4Lti455aiwU4zrurunGppT1c_Bs-RVu8/edit?usp=sharing

Take a screenshot of your venn diagram and insert it onto the last page of your interactive reading journal.

Chapters 28, 29, and Epilogue Interactive Journal Assignment

We've finished Fever 1793 and what a wonderful book it was! 
This story is full of amazing characters. Today your assignment for your interactive journal is to become one of the characters. Choose one character and step into their world.  

Click on the link to access an "I Am" poem template. http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/iampoem.htm

Complete the poem from the perspective of the character. The poem should show how the character has grown or persevered throughout the story.  

Take a screenshot of your poem and add it to a slide in your interactive journal.

http://bf5booksgalore.blogspot.com/2013/12/below-is-interactive-journal-well.html

Chapter 25 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

We are nearing the end of the fabulous book.  You're job today in your interactive journal is to create a Haiku.   A Haiku poem doesn't have to rhyme.  You can write about anything we have read in the book.  It could be about someone, an event, a struggle, anything.  After writing your poem, find an image to go with the poem.

Reminders about Haikus:

It is a non-rhymed free verse poem that has; five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the last line.

Example:

Living Yellow

My family gone.

The pestilence paints us all

  red, black, and yellow.

Chapter 15 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Nonfiction Reading:

Work in groups to learn about other things that were related to the Yellow Fever epidemic.  Your group will have a different nonfiction topic to work on.   Topics that groups may pick from may include the following:

• Yellow Fever (how it impacted the society at that time)
• Free African Society
• Bush Hill
• Dr. Rush
• George Washington

Use the internet or classroom books to research then record information in your interactive journal (this may take a couple of slides). 

• Give a brief summary of what you have found about your topic.
• What was the main point the authors wanted you to get from your findings?
• Which points did you disagree or find difficult to believe? Why?
• How does this influence your ideas or how does this give you a better understanding of the novel we are reading?

Interactive Journal Assignment for Chapters 13 - 14

Interactive Journal Assignment

Create a new slide in your journal.
Write a letter addressed to Lucille, (Mattie’s mother) from Mattie.  

• What would you write to Lucille if you were Mattie?  
• Think about it; Mattie left because her mom was sick and she has no clue how she is doing now and now the fear Mattie has for herself.  

Really empathize for Mattie and write a touching letter to her mom.

Perspective Chapter 12 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Create a new page in your interactive journal then respond to the following:

Put yourself in the shoes of the family who was carrying Mattie and her grandfather out of town.  

• How would you have acted if you were put in their shoes?  
• Would you have tried carrying them to a new town, would you disown them as they did?  
• How might you have handled this particular circumstance?

Chapters 9-11 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Interactive Journal Assignment:

Fever 1793 is full of figurative language.  Locate 2 examples for each chapter (there are many, many similes) and record them in your interactive journal.  Be sure to include how the examples of figurative language add meaning to the story or how does it helps you to understand what you are reading.  

Challenge:
The writing is also very poetic.  Find an example of a poetic passage and share it in your journal.
Here is an example from Ch.3 #14.

She had been a cradle friend,

The girl I played dolls with.

We sang nonsense songs together.

We churned butter,

My small hands and Polly’s

Together

On the handle of the churn.

I took a deep breath.

And closed my eyes.

Dead? Polly’s dead?

Our Polly?

The sweat on my neck turned to ice.

I shivered.

That can’t be.

From Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Chapter 10 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

In Chapter 10, we feel the panic of those who fled the city.  Why are people panicked to leave? Where did they go?  How did they leave the city?  Who stayed?  Why did people stay?  In order to better understand today and tomorrows readings, lets go on  a virtual tour of the city of Philadelphia in 1793.

Chapter 9 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

In Chapter 9, we are introduced to the conflicting views of the doctors.  We see again the word, pestilence: a fatal epidemic disease.   Think back to the poem we studied, Pestilence by Phillip Freneau. What was the tone of that poem?  How did he feel about the doctors? We are also introduced to Rev. Allen (Richard Allen) and Dr. Rush.  What do you remember learning about them when you did the internet workshop?

We learn for the first time what yellow fever looks, feels, and sounds like.  Mattie describes her mother:
#67 Mother shivered so hard, her teeth rattled... She lay under the faded bedding like a rag doll losing its stuffing, her hair a wild collection of snake on the pillow, her cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red. It hurt to look at her. Her face was pulled taut in pain, and she jerked in her sleep.  #68  The tops of her hands were roped with muscle and veins, but her skin was wrinkled and soft. ... Mother flew off the pillows and was violently ill, vomiting blood all over the bed and floor.  Her eyes rolled back in her head.

Let's study the following video to get another picture of what the victims of Yellow Fever might have had to endure.

Chapters 8 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Visual Discovery

• Describe what you see in the picture.
• How does this picture represent what is happening in the story and during this time period in America?

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson Interactive Journal

Below is the interactive journal we'll create as we read and reflect on Fever 1793. We used Google Presentations but other programs, like Prezi, could work also.

Ch. 4 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Character Analysis 

The first four chapters have introduced us to the following main characters. Let's think about how these characters are important to the story.  For each character, use 2 words to describe their role in the novel. Record your work using a new blog post titled: Character Analysis of Fever 1793.  Feel free to copy and paste from this post.


Character:                                        One or two words to describe the character:
Mathilda
Elia
Grandfather (William
Mother (Lucille)

Choose one of the questions below and reflect in your journal post:

Do any of the characters in this book remind you of any characters from other books you have read? If so, who and why?

Do any of the characters in this book remind you of anyone you know? If so, who and why?

Pick an event from the reading that reminds you of something that happened 

to you or someone you know. What scene is it and what does it remind you of?

What would you do if you were _____________________, a character from this book?

Extra above and beyond work:

Go to www.wordle.net.  Using one character from above, create a wordle using as many words as you can to describe the character.  Take a screenshot and upload the image to your blog.  

Washington's Rules of Civility

Colonial Manners

Based on the Exercise of a Schoolboy*

George Washington, sometime before the age of 16, transcribed Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation. (This may be a school assignment in penmanship- original errors in numbering have been corrected; original spelling is unchanged.)

*Washington, George. Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation: a Book of Etiquette. Williamsburg, VA: Beaver Press, 1971.

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm

http://goo.gl/ffgS

www.history.org

Read about our interpretations after reading this in class today.

http://padlet.com/wall/lthiery10

What Kind of Music Would We Hear in 1793?

Here is a playlist of music that George Washington may have listened to. I found it to be calming and thinking music. What do you think about when you listen to it?

Ch 1-2 Coffee Shop Fever 1973 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Coffee Shop

• What is the purpose of a coffee shop?  
• Think about what happens or takes place at coffee shops today; like Starbucks, Caribou, etc.  Why do people go there?  
• How these places are regular meeting spots or hangouts for many people all through out the day.

 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fever 1793 is an historical fiction that takes place in Philadelphia.  During this time, the capital of the United States was located here instead of Washington DC.  The setting of this novel is a family owned coffee house.  During this time coffee houses were very popular and many prestigious people met in coffee houses to discuss politics.  

Click on the video clips to learn more.                                               

Internet Workshop- Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Welcome to the Internet Workshop

Let's prepare to read: Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson.   

Go to www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/index.html then follow the directions below.  Record your answers on your sheet then summarize what you've learned in new blog post.  Title the blog post: Internet Workshop- Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

1.  Read about Dr. Rush under People and Events.  

• What was one of his accomplishments? 
• Who did he recruit to help with the Yellow Fever? 

2.  Look under: Yellow Fever Epidemic

•  How many people died from the epidemic?
• Why were the free blacks dedicated to helping the sick?

3.  Look under: A Short Account of the Malignant Fever

• The blame is always pointed to someone.  Who did they blame for the epidemic?
• Read the short account of the Malignant Fever text and tell about one thing you learned about. 

4.  Under: modern voices; John Edgar Wideman

• List two things that people did to help keep the fever out of their homes.