Wednesday, October 22, 2008

ROAR - The First Women Doctor 9

The First Woman Doctor
By Rachel Baker
Chapter 9

5comments:
- No matter how hard it is for Elizabeth, she is never giving up.
- She is an inspiration to women, and also other people that weren't allow to do certain things because they aren't what it says they have to be.
- Lucy Stones is her sister-in-law.
- It is not Elizabeth nor any other people at the hospital fault's that the women whom had died; she died because of her unknown diease, and since it was unknown at that time, there was obviously no cure.
- Elizabeth has made alot of people changed the way they look at women, however there are still some who thinks that women can not become physicians.

4questions:
- Why couldn't she borrow money from the bank or write a letter to the govenor to supply the money?
- How did Elizabeth knew which medicine to use?
- Who made the medicine?
- Why did she have to leave kitty?

3vocabulary:
- Abolitionist(pg147): Aperson who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
- Tangible(pg147): Capable of being touched.
- Vitriolic(pg148): Of, pertaining to, or resembling vitriol.

2literacy terms:
- "...every year brought new cardloads of misery."(pg154
- "She fits Elizabeth;s angles like an eiderdown quilt."(pg162)


1overview sentence:
- Elizabeth needed the money to be able to open her hospital, it was hard but she did not complain, she is a mulititasker, she has been working really hard and not letting out how tired she was because she is those kind of people who do not like to be helped for, she likes to do everything by herself, independant, also she had to leave Kitty whom had grew into her life, but as time is passing, she is closer and closer towards she goal and dream with the help of people in her life.

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