1. Recognize potential issues and major topics in the case. What is this case about? Underline terms or phrases that seem to be important to understanding this case. Then list 3–4 biology related topics or issues in the case.

2. What specific questions do you have about these topics? By yourself, or better yet, in a group, make a list of what you already know that is related to the case in the “What Do I Know?” column. List questions you would like to learn more about in the “What Do I Need to Know?” column.

3. What kinds of references or resources would help you answer or explore these questions? Identify two different resources and explain what information each resource is likely to give that will help you answer the question(s). Choose specific resources.

T. BARTLEY: . . . You ain’t old enough to remember the year the flu struck the people so bad in this . . . in this country, do you?

HAWKINS: No.

T. BARTLEY: That was in 1918.

HAWKINS: Yeah, I think that both my . . . both my great-grandparents died in that. T. BARTLEY: . . . Yeah, they did. Yeah. It was the saddest looking time then that ever you saw in your life. My brother lived over here in the camps then and I was working over there and . . . I was dropping cars under the tipple. And the fl- . . . that . . . that . . . epidemic broke out and people went to dying and it was just four and five every night dying right there in the camps. Everynight. And I began going over there. My brother and hi- . . . all his family took down with it. It . . . what did they call it? The flu? Yeah. Eight- . . . 1918 flu. And when I’d get over there, I’d ride my horse and go over there of a evening, I’d stay with my brother about three hours and do what I could to help them and every one of them was in the bed and sometimes Dr. Preston would come while I was there. He was the doctor. And he said, “I’m trying to save their lives, but I’m afraid I ain’t going to.” They was so bad off.

HAWKINS: _______

T. BARTLEY: And every . . . nearly every porch . . . every porch that I’d look at had . . . would have a casket box setting on it. And men digging graves just as hard as they could and the mines had to shut down. There wadn’t nary a man . . . there wadn’t a . . . there wadn’t a mine running or a lump of coal running nowhere. . . . T. BARTLEY: Stayed that a way for about six . . . weeks.