The Philadelphia Gazette

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The Philadelphia Gazette A Webquest for the
historical fiction novel Fever, 1793
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Online ResourcesHere are some online resources
you can use to acquire information for your
articles

• Yellow Fever/History of Philadelphia Article
• www.historycentral.com
• www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/past/index.html
• www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/
• www.health.state.nysdoh/comminicalbe_diseases/en/y
  ellow.htm
• www.xroads.virginia.edu/CAP/ww/fever.html
• www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/history.html
• Article about a doctor
• www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/deveze.html
• Article about the Free African American Society
• www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part 3/index.html

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Introduction

• You are a journalist for the fictional newspaper,
  the Philadelphia Gazette. Your city has been
  raging with the fires of Yellow Fever. The
  epidemic has taken over the city and it is your
  journalistic duty to get the news to the people.
  Your deadline for publication is around the
  corner. Get that scoop!!

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The Task

• Philadelphia, circa 1790

• Your job is to collect information about
  the historical aspects of the Yellow Fever
  Epidemic discussed in the historical fiction
  novel, Fever, 1793. You will write four articles
  and design your own Philadelphia Gazette. You
  will write the following four articles an
  article about the yellow fever epidemic (include
  some background history of the city of
  Philadelphia), one article about a real doctor
  who played a role in the control of the epidemic,
  one article about the Free African Society, and
  one obituary of a character that died in the
  story.

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The Process Step One
Using the novel Fever 1793 and Internet links,
you will research, write, and edit your
Philadelphia Gazette. You will write your
articles as if you are a journalist living in
Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic.
There is a shortage of paper, and your group
realizes that the next edition will be the last
one for awhile.  You have just enough paper to
put out a two page edition.
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The Process Step Two

• When you publish your newspaper, you shall
  include
• A minimum of five historically correct vocabulary
  words 
• Four or more historically accurate graphics. 
• As individual reporter, you will be using your
  news writing skills to submit an article on all
  of the following topics 
• An article about the disease, Yellow Fever.
  This should include information about
  historical Philadelphia in the 1790's.
• An obituary of a fever victim or someone in the
  story.
• An article which makes reference to the Free
  African Society.
• An article which references Dr. Benjamin Rush and
  Dr. Jean Deveze.

Graphic Organizer
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The Process Step Three

• Once you have finished researching and writing
  your articles. You must design your newspaper.
  Use construction paper. This part is up to you.
  Check out the newspapers from the 18th century to
  see how they were designed, and model your
  newspaper in the same format. You must include
• The name of the newspaper The Philadelphia
  Gazette
• A title for each article
• A fictional date, volume and number

Example newspaper layout
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Sample Newspaper Layout
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Congratulations! You have finished. Turn in your
newspaper for final publication!!
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE FIRST!!
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