Sunday, April 27, 2014

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. 

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