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Octavian Nothing (p.183-204)

Octavian Nothing (p.183-204). Ms. Tavares. Pox Party.

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Octavian Nothing (p.183-204)

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  1. Octavian Nothing (p.183-204) Ms. Tavares

  2. Pox Party • “[…] coming across a description of a pox party was one of the first germs, so to speak, of the boo, one of the things that first gave me the idea for the story. People really did hold parties at which a doctor would infect them with a mild form of the disease and they would all suffer it together, and them acquire an immunity.” • “A Conversation with M.T. Anderson”

  3. Chicken Pox Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axMrwceGw20 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mailing-chickenpox-lollipops-called-illegal-risky/

  4. Small Pox Group “Webquest” 1) http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/SML/Archives/Highlights/Pox/ 2) http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/invisible-heroes-battling-smallpox 3) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/health/01smallpox.html?_r=0 4) http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/05.20/waterhouse.html 5) https://www.armyheritage.org/education-and-programs/educational-resources/education-materials-index/50-information/soldier-stories/282-smallpox 6) http://www.mountvernon.org/educational-resources/encyclopedia/smallpox 7) http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/smallpox.html 8) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h304.html 9) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html 10) http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=186

  5. For each number/article you are assigned to,select one interesting fact and answer the assigned questions 1) What is the etymology of “smallpox”? When did smallpox hit Philadelphia? Did General Washington inoculate his troops? 2) What is inoculation? Where/when did Jefferson go to get inoculated? 3) Who did Cotton Mather test inoculation on? How did people feel about inoculation? 4) What health complications are connected to smallpox? What was the death rate? 5) What were the British troops rumored to have done? What did John Adams say about smallpox? 6) How did smallpox come to America? 7) How many Bostonians died of smallpox in 1721? What did religious people say about smallpox and inoculation? 8) How were smallpox victims viewed by plantation masters? 9) What is variolation? 10) How was smallpox passed from person to person?

  6. Discussion Questions How did smallpox affect the American Revolutionary War? What was the role of African Americans during the smallpox epidemic? How were they treated? How were the pox parties described in Octavian Nothing?

  7. What’s a Party Without Music? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMPIMUuE7yI (Harpsichord)

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