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Reading Strategies
Fever 1793 Background
Fever 1793 Characters
Fever 1793 Story
Vocabulary
100
Context clues + Prior knowledge =
What is an INFERENCE?
100
The season in which the fever starts.
What is summer?
100

Who is the cook at the coffehouse? 

Who is Eliza? 

100

In the beginning of the novel, Matilda dreams of one day doing these 2 things.

What is travel to France and own many businesses.

100

Having less than normal amount of strength, very weak. 

What is frail?

200
Try to figure out what might happen next or how the selection will end
What is a PREDICTION?
200
The president at the time of the fever.
Who is President George Washington?
200

What is Nathaniel Benson's profession?

What is a painter's assistant? 

200
These fall from the sky as Matilda and Eliza walk home.
What are daisies?
200

A fatal, contagious, and rapidly spreading epidemic disease

What is pestilence?

300

A distinguished quality or trait of a person.

What is a characteristic?

300
The city in which the novel takes place
Where is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
300

Of Mattie's family members who did NOT contract yellow fever? 

Who is Grandfather (Captain William Farnsworth Cook)?

300

Why did the clerk at Bush Hill insist that Mattie be taken to the orphan house?

What is her mother is missing and her father is dead?

300

Strong and healthy

What is robust?

400
Think of similarities between what you already know and the text.
What is to make a CONNECTION?
400

Yellow eyes, jaundiced skin, yellow rag hanging in front of the house.

What are reasons/symptoms of yellow fever?

400

Why did Mattie decide to care for Nell? 

What is Nell was orphaned due to yellow fever.

400

Why did Mattie enjoy Blanchard's Balloon?

What is the balloon represented her wanting to be free and travel? 

400

to awaken 

What is rouse?

500
Pick out the important details from the unimportant and explain the reading.
What is to SUMMARIZE?
500
The author of Fever 1793.
Who is Laurie Halse Anderson?
500

Doctor whose methods hurt people more than help them (believes bleeding helps to cure the fever)

Who is Dr. Rush?

500

Who said this quote? "Why couldn't I have acted strong and calm like Eliza instead of blubbering like a baby?" 

Who is Mattie Cook?

500

diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength 

what is dwindle?