George Washington Carver: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Carver began teaching at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Carver earned a degree in agriculture from Iowa State Carver helped equip ambulances with X-ray machines to treat soldiers in World War I Carver was made a member of a British society of arts
2. Sequence Which of these happened last?

   Carver was made a member of a British society of arts Carver began teaching at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Carver earned a degree in agriculture from Iowa State Carver started a wagon school that brought farming lessons to rural farmers
3. Details In what year did this happen? "Carver was made a member of a British society of arts."

   1926 1864 1909 1916
4. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Carver began teaching at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama." Later: "He started a wagon school that brought farming lessons to rural farmers."

   9 20 10 11
5. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "crop rotation" mean?

   growing different crops in a field from year to year to keep the soil healthy the remains or traces of a living thing from long ago, preserved in rock a kind of invisible light that can pass through the body to make pictures of bones designing and building aircraft and spacecraft
6. Character traits Which word best describes George Washington Carver?

   curious bored lazy unkind
7. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Carver was curious?

   His mother and wife were deaf, and he spent his life studying sound and teaching deaf students. He and his team tested thousands of materials before finding one that made a light bulb last. As a child he collected plants and became known as the 'plant doctor' for helping sick plants grow. He kept working through months of failed experiments in a hot, cramped laboratory.
8. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of George Washington Carver how to become a teacher the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell the life and work of Katherine Johnson
9. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

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

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

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