1. Nurses in the Wilderness By Ruth L. Ewers

2. Analysis 06: Compare and contrast using elements of the text(s)
7 Which sentence tells how the Frontier Nursing Service and the Mary Breckinridge Hospital are similar?
A. Both have modern supplies.
B. Both provide rural medical services.
C. Both are located in Wendover, Kentucky.
D. Both train people from all over the world.
Analysis 06: Compare and contrast using elements of the text(s)
(Reading GLEs 2.3.1, 2.4.6)

3. A. To inform the reader about the history of rural nursing
8 What is most likely the author’s main purpose for writing this selection?
A. To inform the reader about the history of rural nursing
B. To describe the effects of diseases on rural children
C. To persuade the reader to support rural medicine
D. To explain the difficulty of travel in rural areas
Critical Thinking 09: Analyze author’s purpose and evaluate
effectiveness for different audiences (includes fact/opinion;
author’s point of view, tone, and use of persuasive devices)
(Reading GLEs 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4)

4. 9 Explain how health care in rural Kentucky improved after Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service. Provide two details from the selection in your answer.
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Analysis 07: Make connections (cause and effect) within a text
(Reading GLE 2.3.1)

5. 2
A 2-point response provides two text-based details to explain why health care in rural Kentucky improved after Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service.
Example:
Health care in rural Kentucky improved a great deal after Mary set up the Frontier Nursing Service because she built clinics and a small hospital, and she provided care the mountain folk hadn’t been able to afford before. 1
A 1-point response provides one text-based detail to explain why health care in rural Kentucky improved after Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service.

6. Text-based details may include, but are not limited to:
Bring medical care to even the most isolated / out of the way
Before Mary and her nurses came, the mountain folk had no trained
medical caregivers / They now had a chance to live a healthy life /
British-trained nurse-midwives
Families made so little money they could not afford doctors or medicine
even if they could get them
Built clinics and a small hospital deep in the forests, spacing them
throughout the rocky hills so that no one would be far from care /
built clinics
The nurses rode horseback to isolated farms
Nurses carried patients to isolated clinics
Seemed to be everywhere
Treated cut fingers
Treated pneumonia
Gave shots
Delivered babies
Country folk liked the nurses because they treated everyone with respect
The Frontier Nursing Service grew / Mary Breckinridge Hospital still
cares for patients today
The Nursing Service now reaches far beyond the Kentucky mountains
Medical professionals from all over the world come to Wendover to
study rural health care in action

7. “…today medical professionals come from all over the world to study2
9 Explain how health care in rural Kentucky improved after Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service. Provide two details from the selection in your answer.
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“…today medical professionals come from all over the world to study
rural health care in action.”
N. “…Nersing Service now goes far beyond the Kentucky Mountains.”

8. 2
9 Explain how health care in rural Kentucky improved after Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service. Provide two details from the selection in your answer.
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It is supported by many and they have to do what it takes to get to the most Isolated area. They have neighbors that help the nurses carry patents to a isolated clinic.
“…have to do what it takes to get to the most Isolated area.”
F. “…nurses carry patents to a isolated clinic.”

9. 1
9 Explain how health care in rural Kentucky improved after Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service. Provide two details from the selection in your answer.
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C. “…people couldnt afford to pay for a doctor visit…”

10. 9 Explain how health care in rural Kentucky improved after Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service. Provide two details from the selection in your answer.
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This response does not provide any text-based details from the selection to explain why health care in rural Kentucky improved after Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service.

11. A. Nurses often called Mary an angel on horseback.
10 According to the captions in the selection, which statement is true?
A. Nurses often called Mary an angel on horseback.
B. Patients were sometimes carried to clinics by neighbors.
C. Mary’s first clinic became Mary Breckinridge Hospital.
D. Riding horseback was the only form of travel to the hospital.
Informational Analysis 05: Demonstrate understanding of text features
(titles, headings, captions, maps, charts, tables, graphs and
other information divisions)
(Reading GLE 2.2.2)

12. Comprehension 02: Summarize with evidence from the text
11 Which sentence best summarizes the selection?
A. Mary and her family were always very generous to others.
B. The Frontier Nursing Service reached far beyond Kentucky.
C. Rural nurses found creative ways to transport supplies and patients.
D. Mary and other nurses provided compassionate medical care to rural people.
Comprehension 02: Summarize with evidence from the text
(Reading GLE 2.1.7)