Mae Jemison: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Jemison was made a member of a British society of arts Jemison was selected to train as a NASA astronaut Jemison began serving as a doctor in the Peace Corps in West Africa Jemison flew into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour
2. Sequence Which of these happened last?

   Jemison founded a company to bring science and technology to daily life Jemison flew into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour Jemison was selected to train as a NASA astronaut Jemison began serving as a doctor in the Peace Corps in West Africa
3. Details In what year did this happen? "Jemison began serving as a doctor in the Peace Corps in West Africa."

   1976 1983 1981 1956
4. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Jemison earned her medical degree." Later: "She flew into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour."

   12 10 21 11
5. Timeline math About how old was Jemison in 1992?

   36 48 41 31
6. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "astronaut" mean?

   a kind of invisible light that can pass through the body to make pictures of bones a pure substance made of only one kind of atom a person trained to travel into space the wearing away of soil or rock by wind or water
7. Character traits Which word best describes Mae Jemison?

   ambitious unkind careless bored
8. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Jemison was ambitious?

   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. She kept protecting forests even when powerful people tried to stop her.
9. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Ada Lovelace the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell the life and work of George Washington Carver the life and work of Mae Jemison
10. 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 by comparing two people as a list of steps to follow
11. Author's purpose Why does the author end with the final paragraph?

    to list every prize the person won to show that her work still matters today to explain how to do an experiment to tell a funny story

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