People
Events
Ideas
Vocabulary
Villain vs. Victim
100

Mary's Nickname

What is Typhoid Mary

100

What brought George Sopor to the Warren family home?

What is typhoid fever. 

100

What kind of carrier was Mary?

What is a healthy carrier

100

“Yet, she wasn’t afraid to chase officials away, elude doctors,

Fight the police, swear, argue, and write angry letters until

The courts were forced to take notice of her.”

What does elude mean?

What is evade or escape

100

Does this support a victim or a villain?


"There was Mary, earning her living in the hospital kitchen, spreading typhoid germs."

What is....villain! 

200

What was her job?

What is cook

200

How long was Mary quarantined?

What is 3 years and 23 years? 

200

Who was stereotyped to be the group to have Typhoid? 

Who were the poor people

200

“Josephine and the police hunted through every

Closet and cupboard in the house, searching for the

Fugitive”

How does the word fugitive affect the tone of this

Sentence?

What is a negative or bad tone.

200

Does this support a victim or a villain?


"The family's cook, hired just three weeks before everyone got sick, had recently quit."

Villain

300

Where is Mary from

What is Ireland

300

Where did they send Mary?

Where is Brother's Island

300

What was the conditions from the supreme court that Mary had to follow to get out of quarantine. 

What is she had to stop cooking

300

"While Henry walked the streets, John spent hours every night in his study, poring over the data they had collected. 


What does poring mean? 

What is studying.

300

Villain- Mary is responsible for the death of two people at the maternity hospital. How does this make her a villain?

What is she went back to cooking against the law. 

400

Who were the investigators for her case? 

Who was George Soper and Josephine Baker

400

What did George demand of Mary? (all three)

What is blood, urine, and feces

400

What new technology allowed for testing of Mary's samples?

What is the microscope.

400

"Sure enough, when doctors analyzed Mary's fluid samples, they were teeming with typhoid bacteria."

What does teeming mean? 

What is overflowing or full of 

400

What does Mary's case make people wonder about regarding the government?

What is how far the government should go during epidemics and how they should treat people.

500
Pick Mary or investigator- What habit of character did they display and why?
Response Vary
500

What caused Mary to go back to quarantine afte released?

What was she went back to cook at the maternity hospital.

500
What type of status did Mary have in society? How did that impact her fight for freedom? Request for Freedom?

What is she was poor, woman, uneducated, and unskilled. 

500

"Doctors and officals were no doubt surprised to see Mary standing up for herself so fiercely, and her behavior may have branded her as a problem case in their eyes."


What does branded mean? 

What is a specific type of person, distinct identity, or targeted person 

500

"She had very little power in the society in which she lived." This proves she could have been a victim. How could the government helped her during the time?

What is educated her and supported her to find another job.