PART A: How do the details about Johnson’s early life in paragraphs 2-3 help us understand her later success? * 5 points Her struggles in school show how much she developed during her early life before working for NASA. By describing her love of counting, the text shows that Johnson was always passionate about math. Johnson’s enrollment in college at just 15 years old emphasizes how different she was from her peers. Johnson’s early academic success made her later accomplishments seem less impressive in comparison. PART B: Which detail from paragraphs 2-3 best supports the answer to Part A? * 5 points “She counted everything, from the number of steps she took to get to the road to the number of forks and plates she washed when doing the dishes.” ( Paragraph 2) “At a young age, she was very eager to go to school.” ( Paragraph 3) “Johnson could vividly recall watching her older siblings go to school, wishing so much that she could go with them.” ( Paragraph 3) “she so excelled that by age 10, she was in high school. By age 15, she’d started college!” ( Paragraph 3)