Phineas Gage: What we thought about how we thought
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
The chapter mostly about how Dr. Harlow was trying to fix Phineas back together and how they were doing research on his brain. Dr. Harlow explaining how Phineas changed.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
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).
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
The Authors purpose of the second chapter is about the doctors working on Phineas and the chapter has many diagrams to show information about the different parts of the brain. This chapter shows what the people from that time thought
The chapter mostly about how Dr. Harlow was trying to fix Phineas back together and how they were doing research on his brain. Dr. Harlow explaining how Phineas changed.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
- Corpus Callosum: the part of the brain that connects the left and right hemisphere
- Limbic System: the part of the brain that controls memory, sensation, and emotion
- Right Hemisphere: is the more creative side and controls rhythm, spatial awareness, color, imagination, daydreaming, holistic awareness and dimension (Source: www.thethinkingbusiness.com)
- Left Hemisphere: is the more logic side and controls words, logic, numbers, analysis, list, linearity and sequence (Source: www.thethinkingbusiness.com)
- Brain Stem: controls breathing, heartbeat and blood pressure (Source: www.serendip.brynmawr.edu)
- Cerebellum: the part of the brain that controls balance and muscle tension
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).
- In 1850 during winter Phineas goes to Boston
- Docter's portraits in the 1850 - they look wise, satin waistcoats, gold watches, and side - whiskers
- The operating room is called the Ether Dome
- The Either Dome still excists
- There are no female nurses
- There are no female doctors
- They know nothing about bacteria but only about the brain
- No one is wearing surgical gloves, masks, or booties
- Phineas agrees to sit for a plaster life mask which makes a model of his face
- Some doctors don't believe the iron went through Phineas' head
- 300 hundred years ago people believed anger was controlled by the spleen
- The cortex is where you have the ability to think, speak, remember, learn, imagine, read, listen, and dream
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
The Authors purpose of the second chapter is about the doctors working on Phineas and the chapter has many diagrams to show information about the different parts of the brain. This chapter shows what the people from that time thought
Phineas Gage's skull
Picture of the iron when t went through Phineas' head
Portrait of Phineas Gage after the accident