(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Years later, a writer named Rebecca Skloot becomes interested in the story of HeLa cells.
She starts having strong stomach pain and heavy bleeding.
Rebecca learns that HeLa cells came from a real woman, not just a lab sample.
She tries to talk to Henrietta’s family, but they do not trust her at first.
Henrietta Lacks is introduced as a hardworking Black woman living in Maryland in the 1950s.
The Lacks family does not know that Henrietta’s cells are still alive.
Her cells keep growing and do not die like other human cells.
-Deborah agrees to work with Rebecca to better understand what happened to her mother.
HeLa cells are grown in labs and sent to scientists all over the world.
The family remembers doctors taking blood samples without clear explanations.
While treating her, doctors take samples of her tumor without asking her permission.
Henrietta dies in 1951, leaving behind her husband and five children.
Rebecca carefully explains how cells and cancer work.
Doctors tell her she has cervical cancer.
The treatments do not work, and Henrietta’s health gets worse.
Deborah worries that her mother’s cells were abused or hurt.
Doctors name her cells HeLa, using the first letters of her name.
Henrietta receives painful radium treatments, which were common at the time.
