Wednesday, October 22, 2008

ROAR - The First Women Doctor 8

The First Woman Doctor
By Rachel Baker
Chapter 8


5comments:
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People keep saying women can not become physicians.
- Elizabeth was envying how every other doctor got thier own signs on the window yet she can not have one because people did not want a women to put thier signs on thier's.
- NewYork's most important paper is the Tribune.
- Anna Blackwell (Elizabeth's sister) is a fine journalist.
- She spent her time studying on how to become a physicians at a hospital in Paris.

4questions:
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Why did she choose Paris's hospital out of other hospitals there is?
- Is it because of Anna Blackwell's writing, Mr. Greeley accepted Elizabeth's request?
- Why did they reject Emily(Elizabeth's sister)?
- Why don't people understand the fact that everyone has thier own different talents and that gender, race, etnicity, background nor skin color matters?

3vocabulary:
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Dispensary (pg132): An office in a hospital, school, or other institution from which medical supplies, preparations, and treatments are dispensed.
- Hemmed(pg136): To enclose or confine.
- Insolent(pg138): Rude or disrespectful.

2literacy terms:
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"With amazement as a quack..."(pg129)
- "Then you do know just like a proper doctor..."(pg137)

1overview sentence
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Elizabeth is another step closer towards her dream because she was able to have a little section for herself on the most important newspaper in those days, also she was envying the fact that every other doctors were able to post thier signs on the window shop but she wasn't accepted because she was a women, also she and Emily had adopted a girl name Kitty, Kitty is nice, young, and promised to take care of Elizabeth for the rest of her life, and stuff like that.

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