“Fatal Fever”, a nonfiction story written by Gail Jarrow shows how weak human beings are when facing such a deadly pandemic and how this disease can easily ruin millions of lives. This story happens in 1907,  when the outbreak of the typhoid fever has started. And our protagonist, whose name was Mary Mallon, was a typhoid carrier. Mary had passion for cooking, but her passion has killed many people. People who ate her food all caught typhoid fever, and because she was too dangerous, the health department had to come in and take her away.

This page on the left shows different facts I found from the book to support my thinking: “The typhoid fever is hard to prevent and highly contagious.”

This page here on the right shows my thinking about the cause and effect relationship between the environment, the disease, why Mary was caught, and how she tried to fight for her freedom.

The page at the bottom marks the start of this new unit and the themes, central ideas, and social issues that I have found in the first few pages of this book.

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amb to the slaughter humanities found poem (1)

The found poem above was taken from paragraph 1-45 of the short story Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. This shows the character verses character conflict between Mary, the protagonist in the story, and her husband. In the rising action, hearing that her husband wants to leave her obviously was a shock for Mary, and she wouldn’t accept this truth. Thinking that this was only a dream and pretending that nothing had happened, she went upstairs to get supper. The conflict shows how Mary killed her husband by knocking him out with a frozen leg of lamb after her husband was continuing to show his impatience about supper and Mary herself. In this passage, Mary is a sensible, clever and resourceful women who could come up with countermeasures in quite a short time after the murder and could deal with the police and the detectives in an extremely calmly way. The main conflict revolves around Mary and her husband and how Mary chooses to handle the events that will happen next. 

This was not what I thought I would build in the first place,  there was not enough time and cardboard to help me build the stairs.

My biggest obstacle was finding the perfect cardboard, the perfect cardboard that is big enough to cut two circles, without any cuts, and no pie monsters, and that piece of cardboard does not exist, to me at least.

One thing I would like to change is to add a staircase like in the photo, it seems strange without it, looks like a table.

My biggest success for this project was that it actually looked pretty much the same as our sketch;  it was nearly what we thought of about our project in our minds, even though we had to change some things with the ramp.

My biggest obstacle for this project is finding cardboard.  When we started building our project, there was a pretty obvious problem, either there wasn’t enough cardboard for us to use,  or the cardboard wasn’t long enough for us to use. ( Our dimensions were 90cm in height, 60 cm for length, and 30 for width.)  We had to stick to pieces of cardboard together with hot glue. So it was pretty challenging for me to find cardboard.

Skills that I learned or developed  probably is how to cut cardboard using the knife properly.

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