SUMMER READING BOOK QUESTIONS

Book title:    Magic Tree House: Fact Tracker Heroes For All Times

Authors:   Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce

*There are two different covers for this book, but the following is the latest cover.





Answer the following questions at the beginning of your reading/ELA notebook. Make sure to label the page with the Title of the book and then followed by labeling the chapters and numbering the questions. Also answer in sentence form.


Heroes for All Times

Chapter 1: Florence Nightingale

1.Why did Florence's dad teach his daughters at home? Florence's father taught them at home because....

2.What did her parents expect her to do as a young woman? (p.14)

3.What did most people die from during the Crimean War?

4.What was wrong with the hospitals in Scutari?

5.How did Nightingale help hospitals after the war?


Chapter 2:Harriet Tubman

1.What did Harriet Tubman learn at an early age?

2.What important choice did Tubman have to make when her owner died in 1849?

3.What was the Underground Railroad?

4.How many trips did Tubman make to the south to bring slaves to freedom?

5.How many slaves did she help?

6.Who fought in the Civil War? Why?


Chapter 3: Susan B. Anthony

1.What did Quakers believe in?

2.What do abolitionist want to do?

3.What is suffrage?

4.What problems did women face?

5.What two things did Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton start?

6.When did women get the right to vote?



Chapter 4: Mahatma Gandhi

1.What does Mahatma mean?

2.How old was Gandhi when he got married?

3.Why did he leave his wife and son?

4.What did Gandhi believe in?

5.What did he do to protest the British people controlling India?


Chapter 5: Martin Luther king jr.

1. What is segregation?

2.How old was Martin Luther King Jr. when he entered Morehouse College?

3.What did Martin Luther King Jr. learn from Gandhi?

4.What did Martin Luther King Jr. do to show his support for Civil Rights?

5.Where did he give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?

6.What did he win in 1964?


Chapter 6: John Muir

1.What did John Muir invent as a kid?

2.How long was he blind for?

3.When he got his eyesight back, what did he promise to do?

4.John Muir became a naturalist. What is that?

5.What did John talk to President Theodore Roosevelt about?

6.What other parks did he create?


Summarizing question: You have read about many important people, choose ONE person that you liked/want to know more about / think they are cool and  in 2-3 sentences explain why. Be prepare to read these sentences aloud in class during the first week of school.