By Kaitlyn VK

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• By Kaitlyn VK
• 6Y History
• Mrs. Kelly

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Laurie Halse Anderson

• Laurie was born on October 23 1961 in Potsdam,
  New York.
• Her First writing education was working for the
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Her most honored book was Speak.
• She wrote 12 Books in her courier
• In 2009 she won the Edwards Award for Fever 1793.
• She went to college at Onondaga County Community
  College.
• Speak Lauries top selling book Earned the Edgar
  Allan Poe Award and the Los Angeles Times Book
  Award.

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The Plot

• Matilda lives with her grandfather and mother.
  They own a local coffee shop in Philadelphia. In
  early August the year of 1793 people started
  getting sick. Thinking it was the seasonal flu
  people did not worry. People start dieying of the
  fever. Now knowning it isnt a normal flu they
  name it Yellow Fever. Matilda must fight and keep
  her self alive. Will she??

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characters

• Matilda- Main Character
• Grandfather- War Veteran and Matildas grandpa
• Mother- Coffee shop owner and Matildas mom
• Eliza- African American nanny
• Nathanial- Matildas secret love

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Conflict

• Our Conflict in Fever 1793 is how Matilda and her
  family will survive with the epidemic of yellow
  fever.

Doctors bled People to stop Fever.
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Settings

• Main Setting- Philadelphia 1793
• Coffee shop- Where Matilda lives
• Bush Hill hospital- Where Matilda and grandfather
  recovered from fever
• Market- Where Matilda spent her days and bought
  food
• Elizas house- Where Eliza lives

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Themes

• How humans respond to crisis
• How crisis affects people socially
• How crisis makes people have different life
  styles

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2 situations
Aedes Aegypti

• In 1793 in the most populated city of
  Philadelphia a fever struck. It was named Yellow
  Fever because it tinted your skin yellow and your
  eyes were yellow. People battled against this
  fever with all there might. The Caribbean's
  brought it over when they were bringing goods to
  America. They brought the mosquito now known as
  aedes aegypti. The mosquito attracts to humidity
  and moisture and body heat. The mosquito's
  habitat in Philadelphia was by the river at the
  center of trade. This is how it spread so quickly
  because the port by the river was where people
  spent their days.

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2 Situations
Dr. Benjamin Rush was Philadelphia's Physician.
When Yellow Fever struck He advise the city to
flee. Many people fled. Dr. Benjamin Rushs
method to kill the pesticide Was to bleed people.
He said it drained the pesticide. The people
who did this mostly died because of the loss of
blood. He found this Method because the pesticide
traveled through the blood vessels so it seemed
logic to bleed and let the pesticide out.
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biography

• Writerlady.com
• Fever 1793
• Eyewitnesstohistory.com/yellowfever.htm
• http//ondix.com/pdf/docs/essays_addmission_addmis
  sion_essays_1071112948.pdf

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Thanks for listening

• I hope you enjoyed my presentation
• GOODBYE!!!