What We Though About How We Though
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
The chapter is mostly about what is a brain. What the brain does. And also how the brain works. The author is telling us what certain parts of the brain do. The author also tells us that how the iron rod going through his brain would damage him and what it would do.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
~daguerreotype: an early photo process made in the 8160
~electroencephalograph: an instrument that traces electrical patterns in the brain
~amativeness: is a term describing sexual arousal brain
~organs: the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humansIMPORTANT 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).
~Phineas goes to Boston in 1850, so that the doctors can see what happened to him for themselves
~All the doctors were men, and did not know anything about bacteria, but they think they know about the brain.
~The doctors did not believe Phineas was still alive, but the evidence was right in front of them.
~The ideas of how the body works have changed.
~The brain stem plugs into the spinal cord, it keeps the automatic functions going.
~The cortex is where you feel your emotions and "make sense of what your senses are telling you"(p.36)
~The cortex is split in half, the left and right hemisphere.
~"The brain cortex is like a city; every part has an address."(p.40)
~ The more complex living organisms become, the more its cells specialize.
~A neuron is just like a wire with plugs at each end.
~The iron rod that went through Phineas' head, went through the frontal lobe of his cortex.
~Now the doctors do not know what his cortex even does.IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
The chapter is mostly about what is a brain. What the brain does. And also how the brain works. The author is telling us what certain parts of the brain do. The author also tells us that how the iron rod going through his brain would damage him and what it would do.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
~daguerreotype: an early photo process made in the 8160
~electroencephalograph: an instrument that traces electrical patterns in the brain
~amativeness: is a term describing sexual arousal brain
~organs: the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humansIMPORTANT 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).
~Phineas goes to Boston in 1850, so that the doctors can see what happened to him for themselves
~All the doctors were men, and did not know anything about bacteria, but they think they know about the brain.
~The doctors did not believe Phineas was still alive, but the evidence was right in front of them.
~The ideas of how the body works have changed.
~The brain stem plugs into the spinal cord, it keeps the automatic functions going.
~The cortex is where you feel your emotions and "make sense of what your senses are telling you"(p.36)
~The cortex is split in half, the left and right hemisphere.
~"The brain cortex is like a city; every part has an address."(p.40)
~ The more complex living organisms become, the more its cells specialize.
~A neuron is just like a wire with plugs at each end.
~The iron rod that went through Phineas' head, went through the frontal lobe of his cortex.
~Now the doctors do not know what his cortex even does.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 author's purpose about this chapter What We Thought About How Thought is that the author is telling the reader about the brain. The author was also telling how the accident affected Phineas' brain. The author told the reader most of the lobes of the brain. He also said that doctors back then didn't have the scientific technology we have today. About Phineas Gage some of his cells in his brain are dead. I think that the author has put this information in this chapter is because he wants the reader to know the functions of the brain and how it affected Phineas' brain. I think that the author also put this information in the chapter is because he wants the reader to know how the doctors knew about Phineas and what they had to do to figure out how Phineas still survived
30 POINTS POSSIBLE - WEB PAGES ARE DUE THURSDAY, APRIL 17TH IN FINAL FORM - NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED OVER OR AFTER SPRING BREAK
The author's purpose about this chapter What We Thought About How Thought is that the author is telling the reader about the brain. The author was also telling how the accident affected Phineas' brain. The author told the reader most of the lobes of the brain. He also said that doctors back then didn't have the scientific technology we have today. About Phineas Gage some of his cells in his brain are dead. I think that the author has put this information in this chapter is because he wants the reader to know the functions of the brain and how it affected Phineas' brain. I think that the author also put this information in the chapter is because he wants the reader to know how the doctors knew about Phineas and what they had to do to figure out how Phineas still survived
30 POINTS POSSIBLE - WEB PAGES ARE DUE THURSDAY, APRIL 17TH IN FINAL FORM - NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED OVER OR AFTER SPRING BREAK