Putting Phineas Together Again
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
The main idea of putting"Phineas Together Again is about talking brains and saying how important or many things the brains uses. The main idea is also about after Phineas' doctors put his scull and his iron rod in Harvard Medical School to research about his scull and brain
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
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).
All information was took from Phineas Gage a gruesome but true story about brain science.
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 decided to write this chapter because This chapter explains a what they did with Phineas's skull a while after he died.
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The main idea of putting"Phineas Together Again is about talking brains and saying how important or many things the brains uses. The main idea is also about after Phineas' doctors put his scull and his iron rod in Harvard Medical School to research about his scull and brain
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
- 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.
- Harvard: School that took pictures of the skull
- Vermont: Is in the United States of America
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).
- Many people besides Phineas Gage have also suffered frontal lobe damage.
- The people that suffer frontal lobe damage have very flat personalities.
- Phineas's skull and tamping iron are at Harvard medical school.
- There is a monument for Phineas where he got injured.
- Phineas's tamping iron and skull have traveled to more than 2,000 exhibits.
- If the tamping rod went through any other part of his head he would have died.
- Scientists are still studying Phineas's brain today.
- People that have frontal lobe damage have strange behavior.
- After Phineas's accident is only companion was his tamping iron.
- Antonio and Hanna Damasio study people with frontal lobe damage.
- Today scientists have computers that can make 3D models of Phineas's brain.There are still many things scientists do not know about Phineas Gage.
All information was took from Phineas Gage a gruesome but true story about brain science.
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 decided to write this chapter because This chapter explains a what they did with Phineas's skull a while after he died.
30 POINTS POSSIBLE - WEB PAGES ARE DUE THURSDAY, APRIL 17TH IN FINAL FORM - NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED OVER OR AFTER SPRING BREAK