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Day 4

Chapters 9-10


​Schema and ​Vocab


Questions:

Chapter 9 •
Though out this chapter, Mattie’s mother is portrayed as terribly ill.  If you were in Mattie’s position and seeing someone you love like this, how would you feel?  What do you imagine she is worried about?

Chapter 10
• At the beginning of this chapter, the quote reads:  “The patient is to be placed in a large empty tub, and two buckets full of water, of the temperature of 75 or 80 degrees Fahrenheit’s thermometer…are to be thrown on him.”  Go back through your book and examine all of the treatments and preventions mentioned for yellow fever thus far.  Rate their effectiveness.

• What does Mattie mean when she says “and so I left home, in a manner quite unpredicted?” (p77)

​• Imagine being among strangers and becoming severely ill.  How would you feel?  What would you have to rely on for survival?

lINKS & eXTRAS 


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