TITLE: FIELD TRIP
DATE BOOK PUBLISHED: 2006
AUTHOR: PABLO BALTAZAR
PUBLISHING COMPANY: PRINTSHOP
CHARACTERS:
AMY-a high school student
AMY’S FATHER
AMY’S MOTHER
INA-Amy’s friend
SUMMARY:
The students of St. Francis Academy have a field trip to Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority in OLONGAPO CITY. And Amy would need five hundred peso so she could join the field trip. Five hundred pesos is not really a big amount of money. She could ask his mother or father for it anytime. Her mom is a high school principal. The problem is would her mother allow he to join the trip? Now she has a problem with her mom. Her mom has been nagging her to clean the room, study and sweep the backyard. She wanted to limit her watching television, playing with her cell phone and going out with friend which according to her mom, has a back effect on her report card.
MORAL LESSON: Being industrious has its own reward.
Fe del Mundo : Inventor of Incubator
Fe del Mundo, the first Asian to have entered the prestigious Harvard University's School of Medicine, is also credited for her studies that led to the invention of incubator and jaundice relieving device. Del Mundo, an International Pediatric Association (IPA) awardee, is an alumna of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine. Since 1941, she has contributed more than 100 articles to medical journals in the U.S., Philippines and India. In 1966, she received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award, for her "outstanding service to mankind". In 1977, she was bestowed the Ramon Magsaysay Award for outstanding public service.