Fever week 5

1. Fever week 5

2. Week 5 Vocabulary • 1. dim • 2. disentangling • 3. solemn • 4. cackled • 5. trundled • 6. scurrilous • 7. ails • 8. resolutely • 9. purge • 10. putrid • Frayer model for the first 5 on day one. Practice quiz. Frayer model for the second five on day three. Make a 100% on test on Friday

3. Vocabulary practice quizmatching: write the definition with the word • 1. dim • 2. disentangling • 3. solemn • 4. cackled • 5. trundled • A. removing of knots or tangles • B. less bright • C. great tension or animation • D. to move slowly • E. Serious, not cheerful

4. Wrap up • http://newbridge.nc.ocm.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=OrganizationPage&Page='DocumentsCategory'&CategoryID=56719&iSection=Organizations&CorrespondingID=9553 • Test • Study guide

5. Grammar activity • http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/languageartsworksheets/parts-of-speech-worksheets/verb-worksheets/ • Verb foldable • Creating sentences • Group practice • Quiz

6. Chapter 23 • Questions: • 1. Why does Nell smell really bad? • 2. Why does Mother Smith call Mattie cruel? • 3. What happens at the orphanage? • 4. What happened to Colette Ogilvie? • 5. Why were daisies falling from the sky?

7. Chapter 25 • Questions: • 1. Why does Eliza think it will be safe this time to leave the shutters open? • 2. In the dark, what does Mattie kick with her foot? • 3. What does Mattie convince Eliza not to do?

8. Chapter 26 • Questions: • 1. Who wakes Mattie up? • 2. What does Mattie find when she awakes? • 3. What dropped as quickly as the temperature? • 4. Besides food, what does she find at the market?

9. Chapter 27 • Questions: • 1. “Like a wilted flower stuck in a bowl of water, it drew strength and blossomed” (220). This is a simile. • What is being compared to a “wilted flower”? • 2. What reason does Mattie give for why it might be better that Grandfather is buried in a mass grave? • 3. What is Mattie’s plan for the future? • 4. Why do they need to get a lawyer?

10. Chapter 28 • Questions: • 1. What clever business trick has Mattie developed for selling more food? • 2. What does Nathaniel offer to do to help out the coffeehouse? • 3. What made the coffeehouse “brighter”? • 4. What surprise does the arrival of President Washington bring to Mattie?

11. Chapter 29 & Epilogue • Epilogue (def): A short addition or concluding section at the end of a literary work, often dealing with the • future of its characters • Questions: • 1. Why must mother live a life of leisure? • 2. What is Mattie’s morning routine?

12. Study Guide • Fever Study Guide • Be prepared to answer the following questions. You need to use text evidence and examples to support your answer. • What is the significance of the Cook family's garden? How does it change throughout the novel? Why is it important that death is connected to life? What images or metaphors do the novel use to emphasize this connection? • Why is the color yellow important for this novel? How is it related to both negative things and positive ones ? • How has the fever changed Matilda's mother at the end of the novel? • How does Matilda's place in her family change from the beginning to the end of the novel? • How does Matilda's relationship with her grandfather shape the woman she becomes? • Is Matilda a victim in this novel? Why or why not? • What kind of transformation does the city of Philadelphia undergo during the fever outbreak? • What are Mattie’s plans for her future before the fever epidemic? After? Who else does she begin to include in her plans?

13. Discussion • How has the fever changed Matilda's mother at the end of the novel? • How does Matilda's place in her family change from the beginning to the end of the novel? • How does Matilda's relationship with her grandfather shape the woman she becomes? • Is Matilda a victim in this novel? Why or why not? • What are Mattie’s plans for her future before the fever epidemic? After? Who else does she begin to include in her plans?

14. Scavenger Hunt • Find quotes in the book about the following symbolic items • Mortality, Suffering, Dreams, Transformation,

15. Mortality • Quote #1When I was eight, she got a letter saying her husband had been killed by a runaway horse. That was her worst day. She didn't say a word for months. My father had only been dead two years, so Mother knew just what lay in Eliza's heart. They both supped sorrow with a big spoon, that's what Mother said. It took years, but the smile slowly returned to Eliza's face. She didn't turn sour like Mother did. (2.15) • Quote #2I kept my eyes closed, trying to see Polly happy, joking, maybe stealing a kiss with Matthew, then bursting through the door to tell me. It couldn't be real. How could Polly be dead? (3.9) • Quote #3"Another person dead," said the butcher. He brought his cleaver down, slicing the mutton leg on his table into two pieces. "The bell rings once for each year the person lived," he explained. (5.79-5.81)

16. Suffering • Quote 1: My eyes closed. It was never going to stop. We would suffer endlessly, with no time to rest, no time to sleep. (25.47) • Quote 2: I wandered up one street and down the next. The printer's words haunted me. • Thousands dead. • I saw Grandfather's empty eyes. • No food. • I saw Mother order me to leave her. • No hope.

17. Dreams • Quote #1A few blocks south lay the Walnut Street Prison, where Blanchard had flown that remarkable balloon. From the prison's courtyard it rose, a yellow silk bubble escaping the earth. I vowed to do that one day, slip free of the ropes that held me. Nathaniel Benson had heard me say it, but he did not laugh. He understood. Perhaps I would see him at the docks, sketching a ship or sea gulls. It had been a long time since we talked. (1.28) • Quote #2 I dreamt of roast beef, sliced pink and dripping with juice. A roast beef bigger than a horse, set on a giant platter that took up the entire front room, surrounded by steaming potatoes and parsnips, and loaves of fresh bread. I had a bowl of butter all to myself, and my very own pitcher of cold apple cider. The smell of mincemeat pie floated in from the kitchen. (19.1)

18. Transformation • The garden looked dead. Insects had devoured most of the leaves and vegetables, leaving behind skeletons of stems and branches. Weeds had exploded between the neat rows. All those weeks of backbreaking work had been for nothing. Hot tears threatened, but my grumbling stomach was more painful. (17.37) • I straightened his arms and legs so he might lay with dignity. What should I do next? There was no one to ask. I felt like a baby girl just learning to walk, only the ground under my feet was shaking and I had no one to hold on to. (19.98)