"Horrible Accident" In Vermont
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
This chapter is mostly about the actual incident with the tamping iron. In this chapter it tells you how he survived, and how it happened. It shows what he went through and what he survived. This chapter also includes from which end the tamping iron went through and from which side it came out. The chapter is about figuring out Phineas and trying to save him. In some of the pages it show specifically what happened like on pg 27“A wound is an open door. A cut or break in the skin lets staph and strep bacteria colonize the warm, wet, nutrient-rich cells inside.”. This is what chapter one is about.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
1) Concussion: unconsciousness caused by a had blow to the head
"That's a "closed brain" injury (sometimes called a concussion)." (p.18)
2) Circulation: movement to and fro or around something
"many substances circulating in the blood." (p.19)
3) Leeuwenhoek: A Dutch pioneer microscopic who recognized cells in animals.
"Leeuwenhoek was making more powerful microscopes" (p.20)
4) Gangrene: Localized death and decomposition of body tissue
"gross swelling to fatal condition called gangrene" (p.22)
5) Animalcules: A microscopic animal
""Animalcules," he called them." (p.21)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
I think the author wrote this chapter because he wanted to tell us what happened to Phineas and how he died. I also think the author wrote this chapter because when the iron bar went through Phineas it took him a few days to die he first went to the hospital and was fine he was able to move and walk and talk fine but after a few days he started to get a fever and infections and needed surgery. Once Phineas was feeling better he was telling the doctors that he wanted to go live with his mother at Lebonan, New Hampshire and was willing to walk 20 miles then 10 weeks after the accident when he was at full recovery from his wounds and the doctors know that he can count, eat, sing, and dress himself they put him in a carriage and sent him to New Hampshire with his mom.
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
This chapter is mostly about the actual incident with the tamping iron. In this chapter it tells you how he survived, and how it happened. It shows what he went through and what he survived. This chapter also includes from which end the tamping iron went through and from which side it came out. The chapter is about figuring out Phineas and trying to save him. In some of the pages it show specifically what happened like on pg 27“A wound is an open door. A cut or break in the skin lets staph and strep bacteria colonize the warm, wet, nutrient-rich cells inside.”. This is what chapter one is about.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
1) Concussion: unconsciousness caused by a had blow to the head
"That's a "closed brain" injury (sometimes called a concussion)." (p.18)
2) Circulation: movement to and fro or around something
"many substances circulating in the blood." (p.19)
3) Leeuwenhoek: A Dutch pioneer microscopic who recognized cells in animals.
"Leeuwenhoek was making more powerful microscopes" (p.20)
4) Gangrene: Localized death and decomposition of body tissue
"gross swelling to fatal condition called gangrene" (p.22)
5) Animalcules: A microscopic animal
""Animalcules," he called them." (p.21)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
- Its been 150 years since his accident. (p.6)
- The pointy end of the rod enter under his left cheekbone, pass behind his left eye, through the front of his brain and out the middle of his forehead just above the hairline. (p.11)
- Phineas is still alive after the accident. (p.11)
- Phineas is 5 feet and 6 inches. (pg.1)
- After a few days Phineas was becoming more weak every time. (pg.11)
- In 1848 science was still twenty years away from figuring out that infections. (pg.13)
- “What doctors don’t know in 1848, strep and staph do: that the broken head of Phineas is an ideal location to land.” (pg 27)
- “Lister’s first sterile operations in 1868 will cut the number of deaths from infection after surgery by 90 percent.” Pg 29
- “Ten weeks after the accident, Dr. Harlow declares Phineas fully recovered from his wounds. He puts Phineas in a closed carriage and sends him home to his mother in New Hampshire.”37
- "Fourteen days after the accident, Phineas develops a huge abscess under the skin just above his eyes. Phineas is feverish, losing appetite, and sinking fast."(p.22)
- "Ten weeks after the accident, Dr. Harlow declares Phineas fully recovered from his wounds."(p.26)
- "See the pointy end of the rod enter under his left cheek bone, pass behind his left eye, through the front of his brain, and out the middle of his forehead just above the hairline."(p.10)
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
I think the author wrote this chapter because he wanted to tell us what happened to Phineas and how he died. I also think the author wrote this chapter because when the iron bar went through Phineas it took him a few days to die he first went to the hospital and was fine he was able to move and walk and talk fine but after a few days he started to get a fever and infections and needed surgery. Once Phineas was feeling better he was telling the doctors that he wanted to go live with his mother at Lebonan, New Hampshire and was willing to walk 20 miles then 10 weeks after the accident when he was at full recovery from his wounds and the doctors know that he can count, eat, sing, and dress himself they put him in a carriage and sent him to New Hampshire with his mom.
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
The sharp angle of the tamping iron made all the difference to Phineas. The tamping iron entered just under his left cheekbone, passed behind his left eyeball, and continued on upward through his frontal lobes.
Streptococci bacteria have a distinctive beads-on-a-string appearance, under a microscope. "Strep" bacteria live on basicly anything that a person touches.
This was an up-to-date medical book illustration, four-hundred years ago. The Picture shows a half-man, half-woman surrounded by signs of the zodiac and the four “humors”.