You will be reading:
Mountains Beyond Mountains By Tracy Kidder
As you read (both during and outside of class), you will be asked to do a Double Entry Journal (DEJ). The next paragraph is a description of this process.
Purpose for Reading: As you read, pull out quotes that connect to biological content that you have encountered in your Academy courses or AP Biology (text-text). Pull out quotes that paint a picture of the political and socioeconomic situation in Haiti (text-world). Finally, pull out quotes that impact you (text-self). You should pick out three quotes per chapter; one text-text, one text-world, and one text-self. Write a four-five sentence “connection” for each quote.
Partners In Health is a non-profit organization founded by Paul Farmer and others. See the "History" link for a timeline of events.
In 1987 - the following was directly copied from the above website.
"Partners In Health (PIH) is founded in Boston by Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd McCormack to support activities in Cange. They are joined in this effort by Dahl and Jim Yong Kim, also a medical student at Harvard. These activities by now include schools, clinics, a training program for health outreach workers, a mobile unit that screens residents of area villages for preventable diseases, and an ongoing study of sickness and health among the peasants of rural Haiti that will form the basis of Farmer's 1992 book, AIDS and Accusation."
