After your literature circle has met face to face. Please summarize your discussion breifly concentrating on the discussion your group had. Also, please post one question you have or statement, that is resounding with you since you began reading this book. For example, if I were reading The Hunger Games, as question I may have at the middle of the book is why does Katniss feel she has to defy the capitol and "show them?"
Lastly, please post in response to what one other person posted, specifically responding either to their discussion or their "resounding question/statement."
Yesterday, we talked about the book Fever of 1793. Noah was supposed to go first but he was absent. I was Discussion Director, I Questioned about what happening in the book, and how it affected Matilda. After that Alex, the Literary Luminary, chose two paragraphs and discussed ad explained them to us. Last was Leanne, she talked about the bell and how it rung every time someone died and how it rung so much it snapped but that actually didn't happen. that is what we discussed in our group.
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DeleteYesterday, my group talked about the book called FEVER OF 1793. Our roles were disscussion director, literary luminary, and illistrator. Noah wasn't here. Trent was the disscussion director, and he talked about what was happening in the book and how it affected Matilda (the main character.) I was the literary luminary and I talked about three important paragraphs in the book. I chose paragraphs that were emotional or important to the book. Leanne was the illistrator and she drew a picture of a bell because in the book when one person dies they toll the bell the amount of times that the person lived for. (Example:80 year old person-toll bell 80 times.) She drew a picture of the bell flying off the rope because they tolled it so many times.
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DeleteDo you think the bell would have broke if they kept ringing it?
DeleteYesterday when we were in our Literature Circles, we discussed our roles. Trent was the discussion director, and he talked about what was happening in the book and how it affected Matilda, the main character. After that, he asked us questions about the book. Noah was supposed to go first, but he wasn't there. Next in our group was Alex. She was the literary luminary, and she chose about two paragraphs from the book and read them out loud. She then explained why she chose those paragraphs. Last was me, Leanne, and I was the illustrator. I brought in a picture I drew based on the book we read. It was a girl (possibly Matilda) and she was ringing a church bell, signaling someone has died. So many people died, the bell snapped and "flew" off. Finally we decided that the last sentence should say, "and the bell mysteriously rang in the distance..." (What if the person who rang the bell died? Why would the bell be ringing on its own?) That's basically what we talked about in our Literature Circle.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I was not there to discuss with my group I have a question about the book. They never mention what yellow fever is they just say they have the fever, that is great but how did you get it and what is it doing to you.
ReplyDeleteI think it was because of the mosquitos near the river, because mosquito larva live in water until they are mature adult mosquitos. Maybe if you go towards the river and you get bitten, you get yellow fever!
DeleteI think that the fever supposedly started at the river where mosquito larva live. I think the people nearest the river caught the fever first because they live nearest to where the mosquitos live and they got bitten first.
DeleteMy statement to this book is that when I first started reading this book, I kept wondering how the fever came to the town because it never really said. It did mention the mosquito but it didn't say that that was the reason for the fever.
ReplyDeleteThey said the fever started by the river whrere it was hot and filled with mosquitos(the not so nice part of the town)
DeleteIt did mention the mosquito, but the book never really explained what type of moquito it was. Then again, Matilda got sick. I'm curious to see if it was because of the mosquito that bit her, but that was at the beginning of the book. You would think that she would get the fever 2-4 days later. Matilda got sick about a month later when the fever REALLY spreaded around.
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ReplyDeleteIn our group,(Leanne,Noah,Trent,and Alex) we read "Fever 1793." In the beginning of the book, it states that Matilda got bit by a mosquito, and in the appendix of the book on page 251 (titled "YELLOW FEVER TODAY") it says that in 1902, Dr. Walter Reed discovered that the female Aedes Aegypti mosquito spreads yellow fever. And how did the fever start in Matilda's town? What do you think was the cause of Matilda's sickness?
ReplyDeleteLike Noah said, the fever supposedly began near the river, and mosquitos are usually found near the water (where they lay eggs)and also, was it the mosquitos that spread the fever? It was only mentioned once throughout the book...
DeleteThe other day in class we discussed symbols in your novel, please tell about what symbols you saw present in your novel, then discuss what they symbolize. You may want to do some online research about universal symbols that occur in many novels if you think you have a universal symbol (some examples are: gold, animals, and colors such as red).
ReplyDeleteAfter you have discussed the symbols, search the internet for symbolism in your book and see how it compares to what your group came up with. You may want to add what you found in your discussion.
Lastly, please comment on at least one other person's post.
Your post needs to be at least 5-7 sentences.
The symbol i chose was a graveyard and the fever. I chose the graveyard because so many people died of the fever (my other symbol)that they ran out of room in the graveyards so they had to bury them in empty lots, backyards and any other place they could bury a body. At the end of the day the preist came by to bless all the dead bodies because there were so many people that died hey couldnt have a funeral for everyone. That is why i chose the graveyard and the fever as my symbol
DeleteTwo most important symbols that I saw in the book was the river and the bell tower. The river symboliozes where the fever started. The bell tower symbolizes how many people have died. The river was where the fever started because that is where mosquitos live. The bell tower tolled every time a person died. (60 year old man= 60 bell tolls.)
ReplyDeleteThe river is a symbol in the book, Fever 1793, because everyone is avoiding is a symbol, and I think it symbolizes how quick yellow fever spreads from one person to another. Some rivers flow from one to another, and can flow at a steady pace, or a rapid one. Depending on the weather, the fever can spread quickly or cease to spread, similar to a river. In some cases, rivers can freeze over, or CEASE to flow. Basically, a river symbolizes life, but in this case, the river seems to be part of the cause of yellow fever.
ReplyDeleteYes that is true but it cloud also symbolize that the fever spreads like a river, quickly and everywhere.
DeleteAnother symbol would be the hospital because there were sooooooo many people sick
DeleteYesterday, we had literature circles and Trent was the literary luminary, Noah was the discussion director, Leanne was the summarizer, and I was the illistrator. Leanne's summary was a brief summary about the entire book. Noah asked his questions. Trent didn't speak up and we forgot him. And I shared my image of old Philadelphia with the bell tower in the background.
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ReplyDeleteExactly, the fever was the main symbol throughout the story. Also, it was on the cover of the book, Noah... But, that was a good choice, because the fever symbolizes things such as fear, trouble, and chaos, which basically occurred frequently in Fever 1793.
DeleteThe symbols I choose are the river and the fever. In the book the fever was the main source of the fever and represented how the fever spread through places because rivers spread out. I also choose the fever its self because it represents change in the book. A river can also symbolize life. Yellow fever can also symbolize death or new beginnings.
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