Quiz Feedback and Reflection

i.d.- You need to identify the feeling or procedure you are talking about. For example, it is too vague to say that the paragraph describes how Jahrling feels about the sample. You should identify how he feels (annoyed, frustrated) An arrow going back and forth between the “Says” column and the “Does” column indicates that they contain the information. Your “Does” column only repeats the summary of the “Says” column “To Show That…”- means that you have identified to a degree what the paragraph does, but you need to connect it to the paragraph’s purpose.

Take what is said in the paragraph, and identify the paragraph’s PURPOSE. Take a step back from each paragraph to consider what role the paragraph is playing within the text. Consider inferences that the paragraph is leading us to make.

It doesn’t summarize what the text says. It doesn’t think about the paragraph in terms of only plot. It doesn’t make general, vague statements about what is happening in the text.

What the text SAYS:What the text Does: After his telephone conversation with Dan Dalgard, Peter Jahrling was surprised and annoyed when, the next day, a few bits of frozen meat from Monkey O53 arrived at the Institute, brought by courier. What annoyed him was the fact that the bits of meat were wrapped in aluminum foil, like pieces of leftover hot dog. After talking to Peter Jahrling, Dan Dalgard sends frozen samples of meat in tin foil as if they were leftover hot dogs. Illustrates the way Dalgard sends the sample of monkey meat. This is way too vague, and doesn’t identify the purpose of the paragraph or what the author is doing by including it.

What the text SAYS:What the text DOES: The hot-dog-like meat was monkey spleen, and the ice around it was tinged with red and had begun to melt and drip. The samples also included the tube containing the throat wash and some blood serum from the monkey….Jahrling turned to the other man and remarked, “Good thing this ain’t Marburg,” and they chuckled. The specimen was as Dalgard descried it. Level 3 is kept under negative air pressure (like 4) but workers wear surgical gear instead of space suits. This does not include enough information from the original text. It should describe the specimen. Describes level 3 environment and attire, as well as the sample specimen. This is too vague and doesn’t explain what this description of the environment and attire shows the reader.

After his telephone conversation with Dan Dalgard, Peter Jahrling was surprised and annoyed when, the next day, a few bits of frozen meat from Monkey O53 arrived at the Institute, brought by courier. What annoyed him was the fact that the bits of meat were wrapped in aluminum foil, like pieces of leftover hot dog. Jahrling receives the sample of monkey meat and is annoyed with how carelessly it had been sent. It was wrapped up in foil, like leftover food. Jahrling’s annoyance at the careless preparation of the sample indicates to the reader that proper precautions had not been taken with the sample.

SayingDoing The hot-dog-like meat was monkey spleen, and the ice around it was tinged with red and had begun to melt and drip. The samples also included the tube containing the throat wash and some blood serum from the monkey….Jahrling turned to the other man and remarked, “Good thing this ain’t Marburg,” and they chuckled. The meat that was sent was monkey spleen and it was dripping all over the place. Also, Level 3 is different from other levels because people who work there dress like surgeons, not in space suits. Jahrling makes a sarcastic remark about Marburg to his colleague. Describes the condition of the monkey spleen sample in kind of a critical way, because that’s not how hazardous material should be handled. Instills foreshadowing. Preston would not include “Good thing this ain’t Marburg” if it wasn’t actually Marburg. He makes the reader ask, “Or is it?”

SaysDoes The hot-dog-like meat was monkey spleen, and the ice around it was tinged with red and had begun to melt and drip. The samples also included the tube containing the throat wash and some blood serum from the monkey….Jahrling turned to the other man and remarked, “Good thing this ain’t Marburg,” and they chuckled. The meat was beginning to melt and drip. There were also samples of throat wash and blood serum. After entering a Level 3 laboratory, Jarhling dressed in surgeon-like wear and began to study the sample. Jahrling comments on how the meat “…isn’t Marburg.” Explains that Jahrling studies the samples in Level 3 (thus the reader can infer that the samples must not be very fatal w/ virus) and conlcudes that the meat does not contain Marburg. The author uses a bit of foreshadowing to allow the reader to suspect the meat is Marburg.

SaysDoes The hot-dog-like meat was monkey spleen, and the ice around it was tinged with red and had begun to melt and drip. The samples also included the tube containing the throat wash and some blood serum from the monkey….Jahrling turned to the other man and remarked, “Good thing this ain’t Marburg,” and they chuckled. The meat that was sent was monkey spleen and it was dripping all over the place. Also, Level 3 is different from other levels because people who work there dress like surgeons, not in space suits. Jahrling makes a sarcastic remark about Marburg to his colleague. Describes the difference between Level 3 and Level 4 conditions in order to show that the protection against hot agents in Level 3 was very lax compared to Level 4.

SAYS:DOES: Later that day, he called Dalgard on the telephone and said to him something like, “Let me tell you how to send a sample to us. People around here may be slightly paranoid, but they get a little upset when you send a sample and it drips blood on the carpet.” The text is saying how Peter doesn’t take it lightly when an unknown virus at the time drips onto the work environment. He wants them to know he’s mad, and they need to take more safety precautions. Showing how the scientist sent a specimen and took a very deadly risk. They probably don’t even realize how serious it is at the time. Shows how they didn’t fulfill their job.

The passage describes the samples, and Peter Jahrling’s study of them. When Jahrling comments, “Good thing this ain’t Marburg,” the reader feels tension and suspects that the virus is Marburg. This develops the plot because the reader can identify the author’s foreshadowing. The samples appear later in the text, and the reader can refer back to Jahrling’s quote. (Isabella Killius)

Preston uses this description of the poor treatment of the samples in an environment with little protection again hot agents to call into question whether or not the scientists handling the samples are really safe. Later on, when it is discovered that the strain from the monkey house really is an ebola virus, the reader will remember (with horror) that the samples that were so carelessly handled did in fact, contain a potentially deadly virus and should have been treated with much more procaution.