Fever 1st blog

Tamara Ilic
Miss Nelson
English 7B
Fever                                              

                                                   
Group members and jobs:
Tamara-Illustrator
Ellie- Summary
Brandon- Vocabulary Enricher
Andrea -Travel Tracer

Summery:
Matilda,Mattie, Cook is a fourteen-year-old girl that live in Philadelphia with her mother Lucile, grandfather, a parrot King George, a cat named Silas and Eliza their cook. One day their serving girl in the coffeehouse doesn't show up because she caught yellow fever and died. Matilda was very sad and as time goes by yellow fever is spreading over whole city and a few hundred people died. One day Mattie meets the guy named Nathaniel Benson and fall in love with him in the marketplace. They've been friends for a long time but now she realizes that she likes him more than just a friend. When Matilda got home she sees her mother not in a good mood. She caught a yellow fever. Her eyes were yellow and her skin was really pale. One doctor came and started draining her blood trying to cure her. Lucile wants Matilda to leave Philadelphia till the fever is gone so she doesn't get sick. Now Mattie and grandfather are leaving Philadelphia in a wagon with a farmer and his family

Key Points:

• When Polly the servant in the coffeehouse dies.
• When Mattie falls in love with Nathaniel Benson.
• When Lucile caught a yellow fever.
• When Matilda and grandfather have to leave the city. 

 Laurie Halse Anderson
Lan
Summerizer
 243 including the epilogue
Fever 1793


The story happens in Philadelphia in the year of 1793. the main character is Matty. That year the yellow fever breaks out and people start dyeing  because of it. People also star migrating to other places so they could get away from the fever.  Mattys mom gets sick and has to be taken care of. They are on a wagon when they are stopped by men with guns and a doctor since Mattys grandfather is sick and Matty soon gets it too.

Andrea Mitrovic
Fever 1793
Chapter page 96
Vocabulary Enricher


This week I was the Vocabulary Enricher. For my job I was suppose to look for a few words in the book that were confusing or did not understand. Some words that I didn't understand were: Pestilence, Miasma, fervent and petticoat.



Page 60 paragraph 9:
Pestilence meaning something that is considered harmful.


Page 57 paragraph 6:
Miasma meaning a death like influence on other people.

Page 24 paragraph 2:
Fervent meaning somehow showing big warmth.

Page 91 paragraph 3:
Petticoat meaning a woman's light loose  undergarment hanging from the shoulders or the waist. Usually worn under a dress or a skirt.

Fever 1793

Nicky Palmer

Fever 1793

Chapter 14 page 96

Discussion Director. 

This week I am discussion director. For my job I need to create questions and answer them. I came up with 3 questions this week. One question that I came up with is how did the fever come to Philadelphia anyway. I think that it is a foreign desires that came from another country. My group mates agree with me but they think that it was transfers via mosquitoes. Another question that I came up with is that why does Matilda's mother care about having a honorable job so much. I think that she cares about that because she came from a rich family and that she wants Matilda to marry a rich man. My final question is that why is everyone so scared of the fever. I think it is because that the fever is deadly and that it can kill people.

Fever and a Pickpocket's Tale

Name: Alexandre Beikos
Job: Connector
Book: Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson
Pages read: 122



I had one connection only because I never experienced a big disease and went to the hospital or other places. My first and only connection was in chapter 1 when the mother wakes Matilda, she bumps her head to the wall and later her clothes don't fit on her because she growing fast. Kids and I grow fast and get taller that means that our clothes get smaller and we grow faster and faster. 

Post #1 Fever 1793

Ellie Nicholson
Ms. Nelson 
English 7B
Literacy Circles 
15.04.2014

Book: Fever 1793
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Pages read: 77
Chapters read: 10
Cover:

Group Jobs:
Brandon-Vocab Enricher
Tamara- Illustrator
Andrea- Travel Tracer
My job: Summarizer

Summary
Matilda wakes up and Polly is late for work. Mother goes to see why Polly is late. It turns out Polly is dead. Polly was Matilda's friend but her Mother doesn't let her go see Polly's family. Matilda has to do Polly's job that day. The next week alot of people have died. Mother is really protective of Matilda (aka Mattie) but after some persuasion lets her go to the market. At the market she meats Nathaniel Benson. Later that day Mattie is doing the washing but she ends doing it again because the squirrel Silas was chasing and Silas ended up in the laundry basket. That afternoon Mother(aka Lucille) and Matilda get invited to Mrs. Ogilvie. Mattie and Mother have to get dressed up nicely so that they make a good impression on the rich family. At tea the Ogilvie sisters insult the coffeehouse business and Mattie and Mother leave. Just before they leave the oldest sister drops down with yellow fever. She doesn't die but just catches it. From that day more and more people die. When Grandfather and Matilda come back Andrew Brown's print shop they find a man dumping a body in front of their door. Grandfather shouts at the man but Mattie realizes that the body is Mother.  Mother stays in bed and sleeps. Mattie knows that something is seriously wrong. Dr. Rowley comes to see Mother and says it's just an Autumnal fever. Mattie has to care for Mother during the night. Mother doesn't want Mattie to get sick so tells her to leave but Mattie stays. In the morning Eliza brings a real doctor to the house. Dr. Kerr says Mother has yellow fever and bleeds 10 ounces of blood from mother. After that Mother again tries to send Mattie away and this time Mattie obeys. After the doctor leaves it is decided that Mattie and Grandfather will leave town. The evening before they leave Mattie gets a painting and a note frm Nathaniel Benson. The picture is of a vase with flowers. The next morning Mattie leaves on a coach for the country side.

Key points:
Polly's death - start of yellow fever
Trip to market- introduces more characters
Trip to Mrs. Ogilvie - proves that the yellow fever is there
Mother Getting sick - reason to leave town
Mattie and Grandfather leaving town - trying to stay safe

Next post on 5 May
Jobs:
Brandon-Ilustrator
Tamara- Travel tracer
Andrea- Summarizer
My job- Vocab Enricher

Fever 1793

(page 65 paragraph 7) YELLOW FEVER:
An infectious disease carried by mosquito that enters the blood stream.

(page 37 paragraph 4) DROLL:

Brandon - Vocab Enricher
Andrea - Travel Tracer
Ellie - Summarizer
Tamara - Illustrater

To be amusing in an odd way

(page 24 paragraph 2) FERVENT:
Showing great warmth

(page 42 paragraph 7) PETTICOAT:
An undercoat, one that is full and often trimmed and ruffled.

(page 57 paragraph 9) REDCOATS:
A British soldier.

(page 57 paragraph 9) MIASMA:
A dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence on others.

(page 57 paragraph 9) SQUALL:
A sudden disturbance or commotion.
                                                                                             
(page 57 paragraph 6) ALE
British beer

(page 60 paragraph 9) PESTILENCE:
Something that is considered harmful.

Fever 1793

Andrea J
Fever 1793
Ms. Nelson
Job: Travel Tracer
Blog Post #1

         The action of the first ten chapters of this book starts outside Mattie's house, when her mother (Lucille) gets sick. She throws up blood and they get a pharmacist to look at her. He isn't an educated doctor, but he is all they can find and afford. The pharmacist tells them that she just has a small fever, but when they find a real doctor, he said that the pharmacist had gone around and demanded money in exchange for lying to all the families that had a sick member. People just threw their loved ones on the street if they were sick.
     
         The key events were when Polly, the server at the coffeehouse, died, and when Mattie's mother and Collette got sick. These events foreshadow that more and more people are going to get sick. It is meant to show the reader what is happening in detail. These events happen at the coffee house and the Ogilvie house.

        The events of the tenth chapter end when Mattie and her grandfather get on a carriage that will take them to the country-side to live with some family friends. Grandfather and Mattie think that they will be safe out in the country-side, but they worry a lot about Mattie's mother.