Frederick Banting: a Life in Science

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Banting helped give the first insulin treatment to a boy with diabetes Banting began experiments with Charles Best in Toronto that led to insulin Banting shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Banting was made a member of a British society of arts
2. Details In what year did this happen? "Banting helped give the first insulin treatment to a boy with diabetes."

   1891 1932 1922 1915
3. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Banting began experiments with Charles Best in Toronto that led to insulin." Later: "He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine."

   1 2 12 32
4. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "insulin" mean?

   a kind of invisible light that can pass through the body to make pictures of bones carefully watching something to learn about it a person trained to travel into space a substance the body needs to use sugar for energy
5. Character traits Which word best describes Frederick Banting?

   bored determined unkind lazy
6. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Banting was determined?

   He kept working through months of failed experiments in a hot, cramped laboratory. He learned advanced mathematics largely on his own, working through a borrowed book of formulas. He questioned why objects fall and why the Moon stays in the sky. His mother and wife were deaf, and he spent his life studying sound and teaching deaf students.
7. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Frederick Banting how to become a teacher the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell the life and work of Ada Lovelace
8. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

   from most important to least important event as a list of steps to follow as a problem and its solution in time order, from earlier events to later ones

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