Fever 1793 Lesson 1.0

Fever 1793 Lesson 1.0

Welcome to Lesson 1.0! Here we will talk about the first chapter, hidden clues, notes, personalite, the theme, and much more!

What we can already tell from the cover is that the story involves yellow fever in 1793!

CHAPTER ONE:

• Our narrator awakes on a hot and sweaty morning in August 1793. A mosquito is buzzing in one of her ears and someone is screeching in the other. The narrator's mother is demanding that she, a girl named Matilda, get out of bed. Someone named Polly, the mother tells us, is running late. Matilda, we learn, lives in a small room above a coffeehouse in Philadelphia.

• Matilda's mother again urges her with the classic line: "When I was a girl, we were up before the sun…" Matilda has apparently heard this one before. Her mother was a perfect child who grew up during the American Revolutionary War. She was a hard worker who stitched quilts and spun wool all before breakfast. Matilda's thoughts on this? "How utterly unlike me!".

Multiple Select

Check mark all the following that hint to yellow fever that you just read in the sumeray! (All the quotes` are from the book, none are made up)

• Mattie is tired of her mother's "perfect childhood"

• Mattie hears a mosquito buzzing around.

• "I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear"

• "Another long, hot August day. Another long, hot, boring, wretched August day."

• "I groaned. Mother had been a perfect girl. Her family was wealthy then, but that didn’t stop her from"

CHAPTER ONE

Leaning out the window, Matilda surveys Philadelphia, her city: "Below the window, High Street teemed with horsemen, carriages and carts". The sound of the blacksmith's anvil reminds her of Polly, the serving girl who's running late. Matilda assumes Polly must be visiting her beau, Matthew, who is the blacksmith's son. Matilda tells us that her favorite place in the city is the waterfront, with the docks and the ship masts and such.

Home

Open in new tab

Copy link

Chapter One: Notes

Add notes about the characters personalite!