Henrietta Characters
What is the name of the scientist who found the first immortal cells?
Where did Rebecca Skloot first learn about Henrietta Lacks?
College science class
What is the proper way to structure a parenthetical citation?
(Author's last name page number)
(Skloot 52)
(Stevenson 52)
Who is Bryan Stevenson
Author and attorney for death row prisoners
Bryan created what organization to help fight for people on death row?
The Equal Justice Initiative
Who was Elsie?
Henrietta's daughter who was put in an "insane asylum" for her disability
Clover and Baltimore
What is a proper noun?
A name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with initial capital letters
Who is Herbert Richardson?
PTSD war veteran who was executed because he killed a little girl via a bomb.
What is one piece of information that they showed in court to prove Walter was not guilty?
The truck wasn't lowrider when the murder happened, they found evidence that Myers had been coerced, including tape recordings proving that the State's only eyewitness had been pressured to testify falsely at Mr. McMillian's trial.
How many siblings does Henrietta have?
6
What do doctors do when Deborah tells them that she's the daughter of Henrietta Lacks?
They get excited and tell her about how her mother's cells helped science.
What is the difference between there, their, or they're?
There- Location
Their- Possession
They're- Contraction
State 1 character who is labeled as "most vulnerable" by Bryan Stevenson. Why are they labeled as "most vulnerable?"
Minorities, females, and mentally ill
What are 2 types of execution?
Hanging, electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad, lethal injection
Spell Joe's new name
Zakariyya
What did the doctors originally think Henrietta had?
Sore from syphilis
What is grammatical term is present in parallel structure/parallelism?
Conjuction
What is the name of the person who shot Debbie in the jaw causing him to go to prison?
Ian Manuel
How many years was Walter McMillian on death row?
6 years
Who is Michael Rogers?
Rolling Stone author who published the article heavily publicizing that HeLa is actually Henrietta Lacks
What do they test Henrietta's children for? What did they actually test them for?
They said cancer but they actually tested for DNA research
When do you use a semi colon?
To combine 2 independent clauses without using a conjunction
What was the name of the person who accidentally lit her friend's house on fire?
Trina
What disease did Walter get after getting off of death row and what caused it?
His trauma from death row caused dementia