Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
Research project
Information you need before you start the book
To give you some background on the setting of this story, you are going to do a mini-research project. You can use books, Britannica Online Middle database and dictionaries. If you use Britannica, you will need to login to Search For Success first.
Here are the three groups:
Definitions - Pick three words that interest you.
Look up each in a dictionary and write the definition in your own document. Use a dictionary in print or Merriam-Webster's Online.
Person - Choose one person who sounds interesting to you.
Using the database Britannica Online Middle edition, look up the person. Find three to five interesting facts about this person that relate to medicine and list them in note form on your own document. Also, copy and paste the citation in the document, too.
Thing - Select one topic from the "thing" list.
Using the books or the Britannica Online Middle database, look up the thing you selected. Find three to five interesting facts about it and list them in note form on your own document. Also, copy and paste the citation in the document, too. The books have been pulled for you but you are still welcome to use our Elementary OPAC or 7-12 OPAC if there is another topic you want to find.
Pick your topics and have some fun learning about them.
Definitions
- apothecary
- phlebotomy
- quarantines
- miasma
- purges
- gout
- surgery
- ague
- elixirs
- catarrh
Person
- Edward Jenner
- Florence Nightingale
- Louis Pasteur
- Robert Koch
- Hippocrates
- Ignaz Semmelweis
- Elizabeth Blackwell
Thing
- tuberculosis
- smallpox
- epidemics
- amputation
- yellow fever
- alchemy
- folk medicine
- antiseptics
- cholera
- vaccines
- wartime medicine
- history of medicine (19th century)
- history of dentistry
- any topic with a sticky in the pile of books, the more gruesome the better
Picture credits
“The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker.” GoodReads. Goodreads, n.d. Web. 16 May 2014. <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294819.The_Apprenticeship_of_Lucas_Whitaker?from_search=true>.
Bloodletting, one of only three known photographs (tintype) of the procedure. 1860. Burns Archive. Newsweek. WikiMedia Commons. Web. 16 May 2014. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BloodlettingPhoto.jpg>.
Coldwell, Doug. “Apothecary Medicines.” WikiMedia Commons. WikiMedia Foundation, 22 Aug. 2004. Web. 16 May 2014. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apothecary_medicines.JPG>.
Louis Pasteur. N.d. Popular Science Monthly Vol. 20. MBLWHOI Lib, New York. WikiMedia Commons. Web. 16 May 2014. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V20_D742_Louis_Pasteur.jpg>.