Identify That Text Structures
Name the text structure:
"It's Peach Melba. It is a dessert that is very fashionable just now. It is a dish with ice cream and peaches. All the best restaurants are serving it. It is named for a famous singer, they say.
What is description.
She was an Irish-born American cook believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever.
What is Mary Mallon
A communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi).
What is typhoid.
How a printed work is ordered
What is text structure.
Who was the protagonist in A Long Walk to Water?
What is Salva.
Name the text structure:
The owner of the house was worried. If people in New York learned about the typhoid, it could hurt his business. He decided to fix the issue by hiring a private detective that solved the case.
What is problem and solution.
What job did Mary Mallon take that resulted in her being quarantined from 1915 to 1938?
What is a cook in a maternity hospital.
She worked in a maternity clinic. At that time, 10 percent of the women who came to the hospital died during childbirth.
What does maternity mean?
A. relating to hospitals
B. relating to motherhood
C. relating to death
D. relating to children
What is "B. relating to motherhood."
A text that proposes a way to fix an issue.
What is problem and solution.
The term for the message of a story.
What is theme.
Name the text structure:
New cook hired. Family gets ill. New cook leaves suddenly, without any explanation.
What is cause and effect.
Name the setting of the story.
What is New York around the turn of the 20th century.
Fecal, blood, and urine samples taken from Mary Mallon confirmed what Soper suspected.
What does fecal mean?
A. human waste
B. felines
C. money
D. IDs
What is "A. relating to human waste"
A text that explains why something happened.
What is cause and effect.
The term for conversation between people.
What is dialogue.
Name the text structure:
In 1910, after three years as a prisoner of the New York City Health Department, Mary was allowed to cross the river back to New York City. Then, in 1915, a New York City hospital had a typhoid outbreak.
What is chronological.
An American sanitation engineer best known for discovering Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever.
What is George Soper.
What does it mean to call someone a "Typhoid Mary"?
What is Typhoid Mary refers to anyone who, intentionally or not, spreads disease.
A text that uses descriptive language and/or dialogue to tell a story.
What is narrative.
What is figurative language?
What is language that does not mean exactly what it states.
Name the text structure:
In most of North America, typhoid is a disease of the "bad old days," before engineers, public health doctors, and city planners figured out how to safely dispose of human waste. Sadly, for many Asian countries typhoid is still a terrifying reality.
What is compare and contrast.
What is North Brother Island.
Mary Mallon was asymptomatic. She seemed perfectly healthy. You wouldn't think she had typhoid.
What does asymptomatic mean?
A. producing or showing symptoms.
B. someone who has typhoid
C. someone who doesn't have typhoid
D. producing or showing no symptoms.
What is "D. producing or showing no symptoms."
A text that uses the sequence of time.
What is chronological.
What does the term "climax" mean in the plot of a story?
What is the turning point of a story; when the conflict is resolved.