ROAR - The First Woman Doctor 1

The First Women Doctor
By Rachel Baker
Chapter 1

5comments:
-Aunt Barbara is chauvinist.
-Elizabeth is not like other girls, she is more determined in what she believes is right.
-Elizabeth's dad (Samuel Blackwell) is an equal person whose believes everyone deserves his or her rights.
-Though Elizabeth is not as smart as her sisters are and brothers are, she has confident, determination and energetic to do what she desires to do that is right.
-The workingmen was dissatisfied with their payments and long hours of work so therefore they had started a riot and had burned down the town halls and important buildings, also historic churches of the city which caused Elizabeth and her family to migrate to America.

4questions:
-Does Elizabeth's dad write poems as a response to his children's work?
-How come Aunt Barbara is chauvinist, yet her father isn't when they are related?
-Why didn't Samuel accepted the loan instead of having to leave their home and migrate to America?
-Why didn't the workingmen had to pay the damages they had caused?

3vocabulary:
-Vigorous (pg2): Strong, active, energetic.
-Tracts (pg3): An expanse of land or water.
-Inflammatory (pg10): Tending to arouse anger, hostility etc.

2literacy terms:
-"...gray Quaker like gowns." (pg1)
- "The last line was like the last roll of the organ at church."(pg6)

1overview sentence:
-Elizabeth has a strong passion, determination, energy and confident in what she believe is right no matter what other people says, and her dad also agrees because he is an equalitarian, and the opposite of Samuel Blackwell is Elizabeth's aunt whom is chauvinist, also because of the dissatisfaction of the long hour working and low wages, the workingmen decided to start a riot and burned down important buildings, the town hall, and historic churches of the city, and it had caused Elizabeth and her family to migrate to America.