Fiona Wood: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Wood was made a member of a British society of arts Wood moved to Western Australia to work as a surgeon Wood helped equip ambulances with X-ray machines to treat soldiers in World War I Wood was named Australian of the Year
2. Details In what year did this happen? "Wood moved to Western Australia to work as a surgeon."

   2002 2005 1980 1987
3. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Wood led the team treating burns patients after the Bali bombings." Later: "She was named Australian of the Year."

   3 2 4 47
4. Timeline math About how old was Wood in 2005?

   47 42 52 59
5. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "burn" mean?

   an injury to the skin caused by heat, chemicals or electricity a substance the body needs to use sugar for energy the remains or traces of a living thing from long ago, preserved in rock a pure substance made of only one kind of atom
6. Character traits Which word best describes Fiona Wood?

   bored unkind inventive careless
7. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Wood was inventive?

   She looked for a faster way to cover burns so that patients would heal with fewer scars. As a child in Chicago she was sure she would one day go to space. Women were not allowed to attend university in Poland, so she studied in secret and later moved to Paris to continue. She sat quietly in the forest for months before the chimpanzees let her come close.
8. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Marie Curie the life and work of George Washington Carver the life and work of Fiona Wood the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell
9. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

   in time order, from earlier events to later ones as a problem and its solution as a list of steps to follow by comparing two people
10. Author's purpose Why does the author end with the final paragraph?

    to explain how to do an experiment to show that her work still matters today to describe where the person grew up to tell a funny story

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