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.
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