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BBH Lesson 24
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Lesson 24: Effects of smallpox
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How do you think Omakayas felt when she saw her sister? What evidence supports your response?
Omakayas might have felt sad, scared, or horrified, by the marked up look of her beautiful sister’s face.
How does Omakayas feel when she is holding Neewo?
Omakayas might feel hopeful at first because she loves her brother, but his death fills her with sadness.
The visitor was an explorer. He brought smallpox from his home to the new world. Omakayas remembers the visitor because he brought a disease which affected most of her family and killed her brother.
Analyze Omakayas's relationship with her family.
To do this........Use your Seasons Graphic Organizer to contrast the relationship now to the the relationship during previous seasons.
The text does not note a close relationship between Omakayas and her mother. In this section, she is left apart from her mother until her mother falls ill.
Nokomis and Omakayas have a bond because they both speak and can listen to plants and animals. Omakayas works alongside Nokomis in this chapter to care for the rest of her family.
Omakayas was always envious of Angeline for her girlish behavior and beautiful appearance. In this section, we learn that the disease has left marks all over Angeline’s beautiful face. We do not know yet how Omakayas feels about this.
Omakayas did not get along with Pinch, her greedy little brother. In this chapter, she cares for him, but is more interested in the well being of baby Neewo, as usual.
Omakayas always loved her little brother, Neewo. It has been no secret throughout the text that Neewo was her favorite sibling. In this scene, Omakayas holds Neewo as he breathes his last breath. This will undoubtedly affect Omakayas, although we don’t know how, yet.
Omakayas enjoyed when her father was home for the structure and stories. He is the leader of the family. In this section, Omakayas is forced to hit him in the head to stop him from walking out of the house and freezing to death.
Analyze Erdrich's use of the word "visitor."
How does Erdrich use the word “visitor” to refer to several things? Find evidence supporting Erdrich’s use of the term “visitor” for different meanings.
Erdrich uses the word visitor to refer to the sick man, the disease, and death. All of these things “visit” Omakayas’s village.
“A visitor entered. He and his voyageur crew had just dragged their sled of furs acorss from the mainland…”
“Had the visitor left another, more horrible visitor behind? Sickness? Death?”
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