Louis Braille

What caused Louis Braille's blindness?

• Scarlet fever
• Smallpox
• Injury by a sharp object
• He was born blind

What is the book genre of this book on Louis Braille we just read?

• Autobiography
• Encyclopedia
• Biography
• Tall Tale

Which of the following could be a self-to-text connection a reader could make after reading Louis Braille?

• Sometimes groups of people in the world are treated unfairly like Louis. 
• The setting of the story takes place in Paris and I recently read a book about France. 
• Louis was admired by many people just like my favorite celebrity.  
• Like Louis, things don't always work out for me but I try not to feel bad for myself.  

Who provided inspiration for Louis Braille's invention of a method of reading and writing for the blind?

• Samuel Morse
• Charles Barbier
• Louis' mother
• Helen Keller

Which of the following is a fact about blind people during the time of Louis Braille's life?

• Parents should teach their blind children at home instead of sending them to school. 
• Blind people often did not receive a formal education. 
• Everyone thought blind people were not as smart as those that could see. 
• Schools for the blind were everywhere so it was easy for Louis to find one to attend. 

Louis Braille had created the Braille system by age 15.  Blind students readily accepted and learned the new code, but their teachers resisted it.  Which of the following is a fact about the Braille system that the teachers complained about. 

• They would need learn the new code also.
• The punching noise was too loud.  
• The raised dots would wear down too quickly in textbooks.  
• Blind students would do a better job with raised letters of the alphabet instead of dots.  

Which of the following text-to-text connections could be made after reading Louis Braille?

• I recently read a book about the Civil War and I liked it just as much as I liked Louis Braille. 
• The Louis Braille story reminded me of when I read about Helen Keller. 
• Louis would have probably liked living in the US better because there are more opportunities for blind people.
• The school Louis attended had many of the same classes that schools today offer.  

After his death, a small wooden box was found that contained a collection of IOUs and the words "To be burned without opening" written on the top.  What conclusion can you draw about Louis' character from this?

• He forgot about all the money people owed him. 
• Louis liked having attention so he loaned many people money. 
• He was humble and did not want people to know he had never made others repay him for loans.  
• He was selfish and liked to have other people owe him money. 

Which of the following events occured last in the Louis Braille story?

• Louis's system for the blind  is used throughout the world.
• Louis is a successful school teacher.  
• Louis dies of tuberculosis.  
• The Institute moves to a new building a Louis' dots are demonstrated at a ceremony.

Read this sentence from the story: 
"I will allow this to be used in my school - over my dead body!"  He was afraid Louis's alphabet might be too good.  He was working on one of his own!
The reader can infer that this man may have felt jealous toward Louis' system.  Which of the following words is a synonym of jealous?

• Cautious
• Determined
• Envious
• Courageous