Core 3 My Brother Sam is Dead

1) Discussion Question #1: Who are the main characters in the story and what is there role?
Answer: Sam, Father, Betsy, and Timothy. Sam is the rebel of the story and Tim is pretty much the main character of the story. Timothy is also the narrator

2) Discussion Question #2: Where does the story take place?
Answer: The story take place in Long Island in the month of April.

3) Discussion Question #3: What has happend in the story so far?

4) Discussion Question #4: Do you think the name of the story is for shadowing something that later happens in the story?

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Core 3: Fever 1793

Art: Viv Shields

The Coffee Cafe


This is a picture of modern day coffee, the coffee resembles Matilda’s family’s Coffee shop. I put it a table because it is more like a restaurant. In the story Matilda serves coffee and tea, and its very successful. This brand, Dunkin Donuts is successful too.

Discussion: Marian Laing

1)  Discussion Question #1

What do you think Matilda was thinking when Eliza said there is a illness by the river?

She was thinking that the illness was not a big deal

2) Discussion Question #2

Do you think that Mother is scared that since Polly worked for her that she might catch the illness her customers or even her her employees?

YES!!!

3) Discussion Question #3

What did Matilda say to her mother to make her angry?

"Why are you so horrid"

4) Discussion Question #4

Do you think while the days are getting hotter and the cafe is becoming more empty, the fever is spreading?

Yes, everyone is scared to leave there house or go to the cafe


History and Major events

Context: Victoria Oakey 

website: http://www.yellowfever.com.au/  

website: http://www.health.gov.au/yellowfever#5

• Polly was one of the 30,000 people who died from the yellow fever.

• Symptoms, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, headache and weakness occur.

• Polly didn’t notice until 3-6 days after contact.

• Yellow fever can lead to serious illness and even death. And Polly died from yellow fever.

• Many cases are mild, last less than a week, and the person makes a full recovery. Sometimes the disease may be more serious.

Core 3 Fever 1793

Meeting Date:	10/29/14	Book Title:	Fever 1793
Context Director:	Dylan	Chapters Read:	2-7
Partners:	Cyrus	Griffin

Write the Major Event/Historical Figure’s Name Here

Record your notes here.  Bullet points are okay.  You must cite your sources at the bottom of the page, including links to any relevant websites (Wikipedia may NOT be your only source).

• During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania 5000 or more people were listed in the official register of deaths between August 1 and November 9
• The vast majority of them died of yellow fever, making the epidemic in the city of 50,000 people one of the most severe in United States' history.
• By the end of September, 20,000 people had fled the city.
• The mortality rate peaked in October.
• before frost finally killed the mosquitoes and brought an end to the epidemic in November.
• Doctors tried a variety of treatments, but knew neither the origin of the fever.
• Or that it was transmitted by mosquitoes.
• The mayor and a committee of two dozen organized a fever hospital at Bush Hill.
• Black nurses aided the sick and the group's leaders hired additional men to take away corpses.
• Blacks in the city died at the same rate as whites. Some neighboring towns refused to let refugees in from Philadelphia  
  

  1)  Discussion Question #1

  Do you think colett ogilvie has the fever?

  yes because symptoms matched those of the yellow fever.

  
  

  
  

  2) Discussion Question #2

  
  

  If so do you think she will die?

  yes because at the time doctors didn't have a cure or knowledge of the fever

  
  

  3) Discussion Question #3

  Do you think the cooks will be forced to flee to the country

  No because there  grandfather doesn't want them to leave the city for fear of lack of business.  

  
  

  4) Discussion Question #4

  Do you think it was smart of matilda too go down too the market place? If not why so?

  No because of the risk of yellow fever.

  Write the Title of Your Artwork Here

  
  

  Paste a version of your artwork here (you may take a picture with your phone/laptop), followed by a short (3-4 sentence) paragraph explaining the artwork’s connection to the novel.

  
  

  

  
  

  

Core 5: Blood on the River

Meeting Date:	10-30-2014	Book Title:	blood river
Discussion Director:	Andrew Pollard	Chapters Read:	2-7
Partners:	Kobi	Bear	Steff  Laila

1)  Discussion Question #1

What were the nickname of the protagonists theft and jail rat.

2) Discussion Question #2

What do the cruman want to do on the trip.

3) Discussion Question #3

What is reverent hunt job on the mission.

4) Discussion Question #4

Will they collines eat from graves

Core 6: Fever,1793

1)  Discussion Question #1

Does the mosquito at the beginning have anything with Mattie Fever?

Record classmates’ responses beneath each question.  Bullet points are okay.

2) Discussion Question #2

Will Nathaniel play a part later in the book

3) Discussion Question #3

Before each chapter there is a quote that relates to the chapter before 15 the quote was “Wives were deserted by husbands, and children by parents. The chambers of diseases were deserted, and the sick left to die of negligence. None could be found to remove the lifeless bodies. Their remains, suffered to decay by piecemeal, filled the air with deadly exhalations, and added tenfold to the devastation.” Predictions?

4) Discussion Question #4

               

    Will Mattie survive Yellow Fever?

Yellow Fever

                                                Context Research

·      In 1793 a horrible pestilence called yellow fever started in Philadelphia.

·      A group of refugees who escaped turmoil in the Caribbean islands, arrived in Philadelphia. Many of the refugees had yellow fever and that it started to spread through Philadelphia.

·      Mosquitoes helped spread the disease by sucking some out of infected people’s blood and biting a healthy person, where it would get in their blood and infect them.

·      People thought that yellow fever was a miasmatic disease from rotting vegetables, which is a disease you can get from pollution or “bad air”.

·      Many people fled the city including President Washington and the disease wore off as cold climates came in and chased the mosquitoes away. The estimation of victims who died of yellow fever was about two thousand people.

·      Not only was yellow fever in Philadelphia, it spread to New York, Boston, Baltimore, Norfolk, the Mississippi valley and New Orleans. From infected people who moved there to escape it, not knowing they had caught the disease.

My Sites

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/yellowfever.htm

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/yellowfever.html   

           

 

Core 6: A Break with Charity

1) Would you have felt guilty giving the wool and flour to Sarah Good and Dorcas?

• No she technically said give the supplies to the poor which she did
• No because if she was going home and still had the stuff in the cart she would have gotten in trouble

2) Will Susana’s parents figure out about her visits to Tituba?

• yes because that would be a good plot point and good for the story

3) Is Tituba lying to Susana about Betty only having a fever?

• yes because that’s not what a fever does
• It’s black magic
• She has more than a fever but Susana never asked explicitly

4) Why was Abigail not offended when she was called and Indian squaw?

• Because she believed the puritans were wrong  

• she wished she could live like a squaw

This drawing is a mix of the characters Korra and Anastasia

This picture I drew is my rendering Susanna from the book A Break with Charity. Susanna is the protagonist of the book and so far she has proven to be an interesting character. She is a character with conflicting actions that make her appear human. Her views on her religion that she has been raised in are unsure, which makes for an interesting family situation.

·         The trials lasted from February 1692 to May 1693.

·         The death toll of the trials was about 20 people, and they were mostly women.

·         This all started when a group of girls in Salem said that they were possessed by the devil himself, and accused other women of doing witchcraft.

·         Those specific girls were believed to have a supernatural power to harm others in return for their loyalty.

·         It became widespread in New England as early as the 14th century.

·         The breakout of smallpox (leftover from the French and Indian war), attacks from neighboring Indians took a part in Salem. It fueled the residents to fear each other and outsiders and cause suspicions among their own neighbors.

·         As in the book, Elizabeth (Betty) Paris began having fits and violent contortions and uncontrollable outbursts.

·         Tituba was accused of being a witch, among many others.

·         People thought that the “witches” were deadly people. If someone was classified as a witch, they were hung, drowned or burned at the stake.

·          First to be killed as a “witch” was Bridget Bishop

·         The witch trials soon overcame the local justice system.

·         About 150 men, women and children were accused of being “witches”.

·         By September 1692, people began to abate, and the public opinion was turned against the trials.

·         When the local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed bewitchment, other young girls began to develop similar symptoms as Betty, including Ann Putman Jr., Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Marry Warren.

·         In late February, arrest warrants were issued to Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn for bewitching the young girls

Sites:

·         https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1SNNT_enUS557US557&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=salem%20witch%20trials%20time

·         http://www.answers.com/Q/What_did_people_think_of_witches_in_the_1600's

·         http://www.history.com/topics/salem-witch-trials

Core 3 Blood on the River

This is a picture of the natives offering food to John Smith and his crew. This event was important for two reasons. First, everyone on the ship was hungry and needed fresh food for their health. Second, John Smith was the person who was able to communicate with the natives so they could trade fresh fruit for materials. The other members of the ship probably would of killed John Smith for the way he treated the way he treated the “gentleman” if he had not shown his valuable skill as a translator.

1. 1)  Discussion Question #1

How does Samuel feel about John Smith before he meets him?

• ☺Vito: Samuel wants to go to america without Him
• ☺Jackson: He does not care for him
• ☺Graham: He hopes that he is not like his father
• ☺Greg: He does not want him boss him around

2) Discussion Question #2

Do you think that in the book that John Smith is going to be a good captain?

• ☺Vito: No he is not respected by everyone but he is very intelligente
• ☺Jackson: Yes he is a great leader and he can lead them to safety
• ☺Graham: “He is not the captain”
• ☺Greg: He is in the middle

``1)    Device #11)

There is a locket, displayed on a piece of beaver felt. I close my fingers around the cool, smooth silver. I haven’t touched it since the day she died. Mine. It should have been mine because it was hers. Symbolism because the locket is representing his dead mom and is the one thing that still symbolizes her. pg. 2

2. Device #2

I know it is only a matter of time before he strikes. It will not be with his fists, as we commoners do. It will be with his power, and it will be worse than fists. Foreshadowing Samuel thinks that Master Wingfield is going to bring the hammer down on John Smith.

pg. 19

3. Device #3

“Wingfield you are a liar” And you sir will be hanged when we reach the west indies”

Foil because Master Wingfield is a rich person who everybody believes but really is a jerk while John Smith everybody hates but is the key to survival in the Americas.

and soon they saw land out of the mist, and the hope came back. That is how the british s

1. PERISH

As it Appears in the Novel:We will all perish in Virginia.

Definition:to die or be destroyed through violence, privation

Part of Speech: Verb

New Sentence: The meat perished because it was not refrigerated.   

2. PRIG

As it Appears in the Novel: Come on you prig

Definition:a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety,especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.

Part of Speech:noun

New Sentence: The school by got in trouble for calling someone a prig.  

3)DUNCE

As it Appears in the Novel: You are dunces, both of you.  

Definition:a dull-witted, stupid, or ignorant person; dolt

Part of Speech: noun

New Sentence: The man called the prisoner a dunce because he could not read.

4. YEOMAN

As it Appears in the Novel:And he is a commoner a, yeoman so i did not look for him among the gentleman

Definition:a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S.Navy.

Part of Speech: noun

New Sentence: The yeoman was fround upon by his officer.  

5)ORIENT

As it Appears in the Novel: A new passive way through the orient.

1. Definition:the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.

Context Events/ Historical Figures

• During the expedition, near britain, Guy Fawkes and a group of others planned to Murder the english King James I, in the “gunpowder treason”

• In April 1606, King James I grants the “Virginia Charter” to the Virginia Company, which states that all the land found will belong to the England and the king.
• The Union flag is created for English and Scottish ships in April 12, 1606
• December 26, first performance of Shakespeare’s King Lear is shown in front of the king.
• Most all of the facts in Blood on the river are true except the characters. The path they took was the same, and the ships were also real.

• In january 20th 1607 in England, the severn tsunami occurs, killing thousands.

• Native Americans in Virginia werent really savages, they were just defensive of their territory. Anyway, what would you do if strange invaders entered you colony?

• During the time the British were searching for land, they were going through all of this tragedy of attempted murder, tsunamis, and Native American attacks. But The Brits did not lose hope. The Captains on the boats, Discovery, Godspeed, and The Susan Constant. They kept the boat going, and soon they saw land out of the mist, and the hope came back. That is how the british succeeded, it was about hope, curiosity, and discovery