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Small Steps-The Year I Got Polio By: Peg Kehret

2018: 8th Grade Summer Reading Workbook

Directions: This year at St. James the 8th grade will be reading

fictional and nonfictional stories told in the form of narratives. To

begin our unit, we will have our summer reading of a coming of age

narrative told through the perspective of a middle schooler who has

polio.

You will answer the following questions as you read Small Steps. You

can checkout the novel from your local library or get the novel at a

local bookstore. You will need to have access to the novel the first two

weeks of school for activities. The novel questions and activities will be

due the day that we return back to school in August. Have a great

summer! Happy reading!

Name: ______________________

Date: ________________________

Score: ___________________________

Small Steps Pacing Guide

*Assigned Chapter ?’s will be checked daily by Ms. Pilkerton. If you work AHEAD it is a ZERO. Stay on task and on pace. The questions packet will be reviewed in groups daily and checked. The questions

packet will serve as your end of novel study guide. Your end of novel test will be Wednesday, May 16th*

Dates: In-Class Work: Reading Homework:

Thursday, 4/12 Read Chapter 1 and 2 with groups & complete chapter 1-2 questions.

*If not completed, complete chapter 1-2 questions.

Friday, 4/13 Read Chapter 3-4 independently and complete chapter 3-4 questions.

*If not completed, complete chapter 3-4 questions.

Monday, 4/16 Read Chapter 5 with a partner and complete chapter 5 questions.

*If not completed, complete chapter 5 questions.

Tuesday, 4/17 Read Chapter 6 with group and complete chapter 6 questions.


Wednesday, 4/18 Read Chapter 7 independently and complete chapter 7 questions.


Thursday, 4/19 *12:45 Dismissal Introduction to Writing Narratives Projects for end of novel project. Begin developing brainstorming sheet.

*Complete brainstorming sheet to be checked by Ms. Pilkerton on Friday.

Friday, 4/20 Read Chapter 8 with a partner after your S/V test and complete chapter 8 questions.


Monday, 4/23 Read Chapter 9 with group and complete chapter 9 questions.


Tuesday, 4/24 K/8 Field Trip to the Zoo. Read at home chapter 10. *If not completed, complete chapter 10 questions.



Thursday, 4/26 Narratives Project: Work on developing outlines of writing and begin writing rough draft in computer lab.

*Complete outline/mapping guide of narrative writing.

Friday, 4/27 No School! *Read Chapter 12 and complete chapter 12 questions.

Monday, 4/30 Read Chapter 13 with a partner and complete chapter 13 questions.


Tuesday, 5/1 Read Chapter 14 with your group and complete chapter 14 questions.




Thursday, 5/3 *12:45 Dismissal S/V TEST TODAY (B/C NO SCHOOL TOMORROW) Cont. working on narrative in computer lab; rough draft check today!

*Continue working on developing final draft on Narrative Writing Project

Friday, 5/4 *OAKS- NO SCHOOL *OAKS- NO SCHOOL Monday, 5/7 Read Chapter 16 with a partner and complete

chapter 16 questions. *If not completed, complete chapter 16 questions.

Tuesday, 5/8 Read Chapter 17 with your group and complete chapter 17 questions.




Thursday, 5/10

*Cont. working on narrative in computer lab; final drafts are due Monday, 5/14. Will be read-aloud in class (+10 point owards grade) ts *If finish early, work on Quizlet studying for end of novel test.

*Study for end of novel test using Quizlet. Test is Wednesday, May 15th.

Friday, 5/11 Read Chapter 19 with a partner after S/V test. *If not completed, complete chapter 19 questions. *Questions Packet Due: Wednesday, May 15th.

Monday, 5/14 Final Narratives due and will be presented. *Study for end of novel test using Quizlet. Test is Wednesday, May 15th. *Questions Packet Due: Wednesday, May 15th.

Tuesday, 5/15 Study Day in Computer Lab using Quizlet. *Study for end of novel test using Quizlet. Test is Wednesday, May 15th. *Questions Packet Due: Wednesday, May 15th.

Wednesday, 5/16 End of novel test and turn in packet. Thursday, 5/17 Clean out desks and lockers; practice graduation

walk through.

Friday, 5/18 GRADUATE! ☺ GRADUATE! ☺

WEEKS BROKEN DOWN! CHECK THEM OFF AS WE GO! ☺

• WEEK 1: CHAPTERS 1-4 • WEEK 2: CHAPTERS 5-8 • WEEK 3: CHAPTERS 9-12 • WEEK 4: CHAPTERS 13-15 • WEEK 5: CHAPTERS 16-19 • WEEK 6: PRESENT NARRATIVES, TEST, & GRADUATE

Small Steps

Pre-reading Questions

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Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences. If these are not

answered in complete sentences, you will not be given credit for that question.

1. What is an autobiography?

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2. Who is the author of Small Steps?

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3. What is the disease Polio?

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4. How does Polio affect a person diagnosed with it?

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5. Who was the 32nd president of the United States?

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6. What disease did the 32nd president of the United States have?

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7. At what age did 32nd president of the United States get diagnosed with his

disease?

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8. Not only did this president serve four terms, but what else made this president

unique or different than other presidents?

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9. What types of awards has the author won during her writing career?

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10. How old was the author when she was diagnosed with polio?

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11. How long was the author paralyzed from the disease?

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12. Polio today is on the verge of being eliminated throughout the world. Back in the

1950s, when the author was diagnosed, polio was still a tough disease to beat. How

many people in the 1950s were diagnosed with polio?

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13. What other communicable diseases do we have today that are similar to polio?

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14. How many people are diagnosed with polio in 2017-18?

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15. What three countries still have polio in existence today?

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Small Steps

Chapter 1-2 Guided Reading Questions Questions

Score: ______________/20 Points__

Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences. You may use your

book to assist you in creating your answers. Answers not in complete sentences will be

marked incorrect. You do not need to use R.A.C.E. You just need to use complete

sentences.

Chapter 1:

1. What did Peg know about polio before she got it?

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2. How many cases of polio were reported in the US in 1949?

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3. How old was Peg Schulze when she got polio?

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4. Where did Peg live when she got polio?

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5. In what month did Peg start having symptoms of polio?

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6. What did Peg not want to miss on the day she started having symptoms?

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7. What time did the Homecoming Parade start?

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8. What grade was Peg in when she got polio?

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9. What did Peg’s grandpa do when she left for the hospital that she had never seen him

do before?

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10. When Peg woke up on her first morning at Sheltering Arms, what did she discover?

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Chapter 2:

11. What did Peg want to get, but couldn’t reach for, on the first morning at Sheltering

Arms?

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12. Why were no visitors allowed in to see Peg?

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13. What was another name for the respirators people with polio were put

into to help them breathe?

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14. What kind of hospital was Sheltering Arms?

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15. What is respiratory polio? ____________________________________________

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16. What is spinal polio? ________________________________________________

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17. What it Peg on the cheek because she couldn’t swat it away? __________________

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18. What was the other hospital called--the one with the iron lungs? ________________

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19. What was Peg’s official diagnosis the first day at Sheltering Arms? _____________

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20. What is intercostal expansion? _________________________________

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Small Steps

Chapter 3-4 Guided Reading Questions Questions

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sentences.

1. What were Peg’s two favorite dolls?

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2. Why weren’t bulbar polio patients supposed to drink milk?

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3. What was the only thing that Peg could eat or drink that finally made her

temperature drop?

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4. How was Peg’s request (the frozen treat that brought her fever down) brought into

the hospital?

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5. What problems could have the frozen treat caused Peg?

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6. How often could Peg have been turned in her hospital bed?

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7. What was Peg put inside of to help her breathe easier?

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8. How is Peg’s older brother?

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9. What did Peg’s older brother, who attended Carelton College, buy for Peg?

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10. How does an Iron Lung work?

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11. What was Peg embarrassed to do with a boy in the room?

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12. Who was Peg’s favorite doctor at the University hospital?

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13. What did they do with all Peg’s possessions she had in her hospital room?

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14. Why would the hospital staff do this to Peg’s possessions?

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15. What did the hospital staff do with the beds after polio patients moved?

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16. Who was Peg’s first roommate?

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17. How old was Peg’s first roommate?

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18. Why did Peg want to be turned so often?

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Small Steps

Chapter 5 Guided Reading Questions Questions

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sentences.

1. What did Peg tell Dr. Bevis was the worst thing about being paralyzed?

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2. What did Dr. Bevis do to Peg’s toes?

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3. What was the promise that Peg made to Dr. Bevis?

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4. What knock-knock joke did Peg makeup with the name “Wendy”?

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5. What was Peg’s favorite TV program?

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6. How were Peg & tommy able to listen to the Lone Ranger?

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7. What time did the Lone Ranger come on TV?

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8. What was the all the Lone Ranger made to his horse?

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9. What was the Lone Ranger’s companion?

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10. What did Tommy call Peg?

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11. What does “Kemo Sabe” mean?

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sentences.

1. What were the medical treatments that first helped polio patients?

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2. What happens to polio patients; muscles in the acute stage of polio, when they have

a fever?

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3. What is it called when patients do exercises?

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4. What did Mrs. Crab call Peg’s first physical therapist?

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5. What did Peg call physical therapy time?

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6. How tall was Peg at the age of twelve?

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7. What were the only movies Peg had ever seen by the time she was twelve?

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8. Why hadn’t Peg seen all of Snow White?

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9. When was the only other time Peg had been away from her parents overnight?

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10. Who watched Peg when her parents needed a babysitter at home?

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11. How tall was Peg’s school in Austin?

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12. What did Peg want to be when she grew up?

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13. How did Dr. Bevis convince Peg to do some exercises?

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sentences.

1. What exciting thing happened to Peg on October 1st?

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2. How long had Peg been paralyzed before she was able to move a little?

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3. What could Peg do now that she was able to have her bed cranked up to sitting

position?

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4. Why did Peg have to keep her feet flat against a board at the foot of her bed?

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5. What happens to muscles if a nerve center is destroyed?

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6. How did Peg get polio when she never knew anyone with polio?

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7. How did BJ sign his get-well card to Peg?

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8. What did Peg’s friend Karen want to do at school?

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9. How is Karen’s ideas compared to today?

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10. What musical instrument did Peg play?

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11. What game did Peg play with Richard?

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sentences.

1. Why did Peg have to leave University Hospital and go back to Sheltering Arms?

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2. What did Peg leave for Tommy when she left for Sheltering Arms?

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3. Why hadn’t anyone visited Tommy?

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4. What room at Sheltering Arms did Peg move into?

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5. How many roommates did Peg have at Sheltering Arms?

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6. How old were Dorothy and Shirley?

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7. Why did Shirley have a double problem?

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8. How old was Renee?

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9. How old was Alice? How old was Alice when she first entered Sheltering Arms? (+2

Points)

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10. What had all Peg’s roommates experienced that Peg never experienced?

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11. What condition did Alice have with her feet?

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12. Why didn’t Alice’s parents want her?

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13. What happened to Alice when her parents abandoned her?

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14. What kind of home did Dorothy have with her parents?

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15. What did Peg’s father do for a living?

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16. What did Peg’s mother do for a living?

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17. What did Peg’s grandfather do for a living?

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18. Who was Peg’s physical therapist at Sheltering Arms?

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sentences.

1. What was the big difference between Mrs. Crab and Miss Ballard?

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2. What did Peg name her wheelchair?

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3. What was the name of Lone Ranger’s horse?

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4. How often were visitors allowed at Sheltering Arms?

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5. When were visiting hours at Sheltering Arms?

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6. How long did it take to drive from Austin to Sheltering Arms in Minneapolis?

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7. What snack did Peg’s parents bring on their first visit that made all the girls

excited?

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8. What did the Usems get?

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9. What did Mrs. Meany do?

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10. What was Steve Gentle doing?

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11. How many times had Shirley’s parents come to visit her?

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12. How often did Dorothy’s parents come visit her?

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13. What happened when Alice’s brother came and visited her?

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14. What comic books did Renee ask for Peg’s parents to bring her?

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15. What did Shirley ask Peg’s parents to bring for her?

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16. What did Dorothy ask for Peg’s parents to bring for her?

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17. What did Peg’s parents bring for Alice?

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18. How old was Art?

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19. What had a sorority group elected Art?

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20. Who gave Dorothy a bag of licorice?

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sentences.

1. What was Peg’s one birthday wish?

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2. What did Dorothy and Renee give to Peg on her birthday?

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3. What did Alice give to Peg on her birthday?

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4. What were the names of the nurses at Sheltering Arms?

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5. What did Miss Ballard switch Peg to instead of hot packs?

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6. What did they do in OT (occupational therapy) room?

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7. What was the name of the OT?

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8. What task did Jeanette give Peg to do?

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9. What did Peg make in OT?

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sentences.

1. What did Peg do right before Thanksgiving?

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2. What did Peg want to do in Hawaii?

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3. How are walking sticks different than crutches?

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4. Why did it take so long for the walking sticks to arrive?

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5. Why was using walking sticks helpful?

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6. Where were the walking sticks made?

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7. What did Peg start doing every day once she was able to get from the bed to the

wheelchair by herself?

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8. What was Peg’s favorite thing to do in the wheelchair?

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9. What did Peg call the place under her bed?

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10. How was Peg able to reach and pull out cookie containers from under her bed?

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11. How did Miss Ballard describe Peg to Dr. Bevis?

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sentences.

1. How long was Dorothy sick before her parents could get her to the doctor when she

started having polio symptoms?

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2. Why weren’t Renee & Shirley able to start Kenny Treatments as quickly as Peg?

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3. Why didn’t Alice get Kenny treatments?

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4. Who did Shirley miss?

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5. What kind of voice did Alice have?

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6. How did Alice know so many songs?

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7. What did Peg’s parents for in December?

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8. What kind of car did Peg’s parents drive?

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9. Why wouldn't Peg stay upright in the back seat of the car?

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10. Why was it difficult or Peg to get into her house through the front door?

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11. What did Peg’s mom make for dinner on the night she came home to visit?

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12. What did Peg always ask for on birthdays or special occasions to eat for dessert?

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13. What embarrassed Peg when she visited home?

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14. Where did Peg sleep when she visited home?

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15. What did Peg discover when she tried to play piano when she visited home?

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sentences.

1. What kind of instrument did Peg have to learn to play in Occupational Therapy?

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2. Why did Peg hate the accordion?

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3. Why didn’t Peg’s dad use sheet music when he played the piano?

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4. What did Peg’s dad learn to play on the accordion?

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5. How did Peg’s dad learn to play on the accordion so well and so fast?

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6. Why couldn't Shirley sit up for more than an hour at a time?

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7. Who was the teacher at Sheltering Arms?

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8. Why did Peg love at school to Sheltering Arms that helped her write?

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9. What adult books did Peg read that the librarian at the Minneapolis Public Library

brought?

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10. How did Peg stay up with her classmates at regular school?

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11. Why did Peg work so hard to teach herself History & Math?

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12. Why was Sister Kenny called ‘sister’ if she wasn’t a Catholic nun?

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13. In what was was Elizabeth Kenny commissioned as sister?

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14. How did Sister Kenny develop her treatments?

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15. Why did Sister Kenny know so much about muscles?

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16. What was polio originally called?

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17. What report did the Austrailian medical officials publish in 1938 about Sister

Kenny’s methods?

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18. What did Sister Kenny do in 1940?

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19. What happened to Sister Kenny in December 1942?

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20. What did they do with polio treatments before Sister Kenny’s treatments?

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21. What is the name of the cramp people sometimes get in their legs?

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22. What happened to people’s muscles after they were in the casts for a long time?

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Small Steps


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sentences.

1. How many steps did Peg take on the first day of learning to use the walking sticks?

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2. What did Peg give up after two weeks of using the walking sticks?

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Small Steps


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sentences.

1. What kind of songs made Peg feel lonely?

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2. What two groups came to Sheltering Arms during Christmas time with clowns,

music, treats, and magicians?

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3. What did Peg beg to do for Christmas?

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4. What part did Peg play in the Christmas play?

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5. Who played Joseph in the Christmas play?

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6. Who was the youngest actor in the Christmas play?

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7. What did Alice do in the Christmas play?

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8. What was Peg’s cue word to come out on the stage during the Christmas play?

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9. What kind of shoes did Peg have to wear to support her feet?

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10. Why did Peg need to try to walk on stage as Mary without her sticks?

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11. Who made a degree that all the world should be taxed?

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sentences.

1. What did they use for gifts the wise men brought for Jesus in the Christmas play?

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2. What did Dorothy play in the Christmas play?

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3. How was Peg able to get upstairs to her room when she visited home during

Christmas?

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4. Who else got Christmas passes to visit home?

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5. Who stayed a Sheltering Arms during Christmas?

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6. Why couldn’t Dorothy go home for Christmas?

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7. What did Peg’s dad want to do with BJ because he kept wanting to jump on Peg?

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8. What was Peg disappointed about when she got home?

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9. What did Dorothy get for Christmas?

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10. What exciting news did Alice have about her Christmas?

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11. What was “clutch”?

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12. What did Peg’s mom want to do with her toys and books?

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13. Which dolls were Peg unwilling to donate?

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14. What book did Peg see a boy reading that she wanted to grab from him?

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sentences.

1. What book did Miss Ballard put on Peg’s head?

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2. Why did Miss Ballard put a book on Peg’s head?

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3. What was the only fashion show Peg had ever attended?

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4. What did Peg get to do in February?

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5. What did the girls in room 202 tell Peg they would miss when she went home?

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6. Why did Peg have to go to University Hospital before she went home for good?

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7. What present did Peg’s mom buy for Dr.Bevis?

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sentences.

1. What activity did Peg continue to do in order to strengthen her feet and leg

muscles?

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2. What did Peg do every morning once she moved back home?

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3. Why was it harder to walk with sticks at home than at the hospital?

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4. What did Peg’s friends want to hear about they visited her?

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5. Why did Peg stop listening to the Lone Ranger when she returned home?

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6. How was Dorothy able to move back home even though she wasn’t able to use

braces?

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7. Why did Peg feel safe and comfortable with her friends at Sheltering Arms and

sometimes want to go back?

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8. What was Peg’s first period class?

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9. How did Peg sing differently in chorus when she came back from Sheltering Arms?

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10. How many months had Peg been gone from home?

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Chapter 19/Epilogue Guided Reading Questions Questions

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sentences.

1. How long did it take after she got for Peg to be able to walk without sticks?

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2. What did Peg do after graduating from Austin High School?

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3. Who did Peg marry?

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4. What was Peg’s maiden name?

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5. What were Peg & Carl’s kids’ names?

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6. What does Peg Kehret like writing best?

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7. What does Peg still care a lot about and include in her books a lot?

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8. What pets did Peg & Carl take with them around the US in a motor home?

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9. How many children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren did Dorothy end up

with?

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10. What did Dorothy do until she retired?

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11. What did Renee write after she graduated high school?

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12. Which sibling did Alice reconnect with and visit with until she died of cancer in

1993?

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13. Which sibling did Alice reconnect with and visit with until she died of cancer in

1993?

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14. What happened to Shirley?

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15. Where did Peg’s brother, Art, graduate from college?

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16. Where did Art work as executive vice president?

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17. How many children/grandchildren did Art have?

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18. Why didn’t Peg visit Tommy when she went to University Hospital to see Dr. Bevis?

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19. What kind of doctor did Dr. Bevis become after he worked with polio patients at

the Sister Kenny Institute?

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20. Who invented the 1st polio vaccine?

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21. Who continued to work on polio vaccines and developed an oral one?

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22. What do many former polio patients have to do when they get old?

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23. What major city in the United States was hit hardest in 1916 when the first major

US polio epidemic occured?

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24. What US president got polio in 1921 and had to use a wheelchair?

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25. Why did Peg’s mom destroy all of Peg’s photos of her in a wheelchair?

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