1. Fever 1793
CHAPTER 1-3 REVIEW

2. Discuss with your 4…
How would you describe the relationship between Matilda and her mother? (pg 1-14)
What are some places or things the author refers to that let the reader know the story took place a long time ago? Discuss any that may be unfamiliar.
Why do you think each of the chapters begins with a quotation from the writings of someone who lived at the time of the story?

3. Text Questions
1. Why is Mother angry as she tries to awaken her daughter Matilda?
2. Why does Eliza like living in Philadelphia?
3. What do Mattie’s mother and Eliza have in common? In what ways are they different?
4. What does Mattie plan for her future?
Use the text. Write the page number where you found the answer (#) next to it.

4. Point of View From whose point of view is Fever 1793 written?
The narrator’s perspective from which the events are depicted (e.g. first-person, third-person, etc.). The vantage point from which a story is told.
From whose point of view is Fever 1793 written?
Why do you think the author chose this point of view? Why not tell the story from a different perspective – another age, race, economic status?

5. Fever 1793
CHAPTER 4

6. Chapter 4
“The ship’s captain finished telling a yarn, and the windowpanes rattled with laughter.” (18)
This is a perfect example of an inference context clue. If the windowpanes rattled with laughter, what can you infer the ship’s captain said? …therefore, what is a “yarn.”
YARN is also a multiple meaning word. How?

7. Author’s Purpose Authors always have a reason for writing
You already know PIE…
Persuade – convince you to believe an argument
Inform – discuss a point with facts/stats/events
Explain – tell a story, elaborate with details

8. But wait, there’s more!
In a novel, each chapter and even some smaller choices will serve a different purpose, have a reason for being, or to try to accomplish something…
Examples: to develop characterization, to raise tension and move plot, to present a conflict, to give historical background…
What purposes can we add?

10. Essential Question
What is the author’s purpose in Chapter 4?

11. Ticket Out the Door
Most of Chapter 4 is devoted to a long conversation between a doctor, a lawyer, two government officials and Grandfather.
Reread and think about what they discuss. What do you think is the author’s purpose of giving up so much of the chapter to this dialogue?
What is the author’s purpose of having the conversation be between a doctor, a lawyer, and some government officials?