Following Phineas
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
- "Phineas takes back his tamping iron and hits the road, traveling from city to city through New England and ending up at P.T Barnum's American museum on Broadway in. New York City."p43
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
Seizure: a sudden, involuntary contraction of the muscles usually caused by a disruption of the normal electrical patterns of the brain. A seizure is a symptom, not a disease in itself
Tamping Iron: similar in appearance to a crowbar, a tamping iron was a specialized tool for gunpowder blasting in construction work before the invention of dynamite.
Hypothermia: a physiological state in which body temperature falls when below normal.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
- Guide Words- Are any thing that sticks out and gives an example of a specific word.
- Title Page- Page 1- The title page tells us the name of the which is A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science and the author (John Fleischman) and the publisher (Houghton Mifflin Company)
- Table of Contents- Page 4- The table of contents divides chapters so you can find them.
- Index- Page 143-162- Helps you find important words in the book.
- Glossary- Page 133-139- It tells us the definition for the vocabulary words
- Heading, subheading- Beginning of each chapter, Paragraph or sentence before the main paragraph
- Keywords-A word of importance, usually in italics or bold.
- Photographs/Illustrations - Page 16-17, etc. - Helps the reader understand something by looking at it from the inside. Gives the reader an image to support the information provided in the text.
- Captions- Under every picture (For example page 25 under the picture of a flea) - Little bullet points under pictures.
- Diagrams- A picture that illustrates something in the text. (pg. 16 of the skull)
- Labels- a text box in an illustration that describes or names a part of the picture. (In pictures in the book)
- Text box- Throughout the book- information to assist your reading in the text
- Map- Throughout the book- a map shows specific locations on a picture (ex. map of country, map of the body)
- Special Print (bold, italics, highlighted text)- page 60- important words or sentences you need to know
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
- I think the author made this chapter and decide to publish it in his book because the chapter tells you more about what went on in Phinease's life, and how horrible the trauma was when the spear went through his skull and then his life was over.
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