Learning Task 5: In your notebook, complete the activity sheet below by showing connections between your personal experiences and the context of
the story read.
In the text
In my life
Discuss or state a part of the What does this event remind me in my
previous text you read that are life?
related to your experiences in
terms of the calamity Example:
mentioned.
This reminded me of my experience when our
Example: the people in the text place was hit by the same typhoon that brought
experienced a strong typhoon
worries to me because of the strong wind that
almost destroyed our roofs.
What does this event remind me in my
life?
What is this similar to in my life?
How is this different from
my
life?

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator