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Prologue - Part 2: Chapter 8

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Barry, John M. The Great Influenza. Penguin Books, 2004.

• The Great Influenza is a nonfiction book about the 1918 flu pandemic and the political, scientific, and cultural factors in its spread. The book has experienced a surge in popularity as a result of the 2019-2020 Covid-19 Pandemic.

• The narrative of the book is related in the third-person from a journalistic perspective as author John M. Barry details the events surrounding the outbreak of the virus and those who worked to find a cure.

• In the Prologue, Barry introduces readers to Paul Lewis, a medical scientist who was brought into the Navy as a lieutenant commander in order to study a new disease affecting sailors in Philadelphia.

• The symptoms of this rapidly-spreading illness included intense coughing, bleeding from noses, ears, and eyes, severe...

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