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24 Nelson Mandela ©Teacher Created Resources 161 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up Check Your Understanding / 4 Name ______________________________________________ 1. From the context of the passage, when was Louis Braille born? a. 1809 c. 1814 b. 1812 d. 1819 2. How long did it take Louis to invent a system of writing for the blind? a. three years c. one year b. twenty years d. fourteen years 3. What led to Louis Braille’s blindness? a. stabbing himself with an awl c. a bee sting b. an eye infection d. both a and b 4. From the context of the passage, what is a stylus? a. a tool for reading b. a tool for punching holes c. a new dance d. both a and b Louis Braille was the three-year-old son of a French leather worker when he accidentally stabbed himself in the left eye. He was trying to push a sharp, pointed awl through a piece of leather in his father’s shop. His parents stopped the bleeding and took him to a doctor. However, in 1812, even doctors did not yet know about germs. Louis got an infection in his injured eye, and it spread to his good eye. Within two years, Louis lost all of his sight and was permanently blind. Despite his blindness, his family helped him learn the places where he was walking. They taught him to recognize the voices of neighbors. His sister taught him to identify letters made of straw when he touched them. He was even allowed to attend the village school. He learned math very quickly and remembered everything the teacher said. In 1819, Louis went to the first school for the blind in Paris, France. He would spend the rest of his life there. By the age of fourteen, Louis had read all fourteen of the Institute’s raised letter books. He realized that a new code was needed to allow blind students to read with their fingers. He experimented with several codes using raised dots. He worked every night with a stylus, punching holes in paper. Within three years, he developed the Braille system, named in his honor by the other students. It took Louis twenty years to have his own system accepted. The authorities at the Institute first destroyed many of his books. Today, Braille is the most popular reading method for the blind. Fascinating People Download 10.24 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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