Women In History
Led the Underground Railroad
wrote Pride and Prejudice
known for the phrase "Big Brother is watching you"
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
first American woman in space
Sally Ride
The main character of a story
a protagonist
Refused to give her up her seat on the bus
Rosa Parks
wrote Little Woman, inspired by her own family life
Louisa May Alcott
racial injustice written by Harper Lee
to Kill a Mockingbird
mathematician at NASA was portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures
Katherine Johnson
A struggle between characters or forces in a story
conflict
The first black girl to integrate an elementary school
Ruby Bridges
wrote a book about a dystopian universe where women are essentially incubators
Maragret Atwood, Handmaids Tale
about a young wizard at Hogwarts
Harry Potter
first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics
Maryam Mirzakhani
The time and place where a story happens
setting
Supreme Court Justice known for gender equality
RBG or Ruth Bader Ginsburg
first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Toni Morrison
explores wealth and the American dream in the 1920s
The Great Gatsby
This primatologist became famous for her research on chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
a figure of speech comparing two things using "like" or "as"
a simile
First women to win a Nobel Prize and won it twice in 2 different sciences
Marie Curie
wrote Frankenstein at age 18
Mary Shelley
classic dystopian novel that imagines a society controlled by technology and conditioning
Brave New World
She developed the first compiler for computer programming languages
Grace Hopper
a story that teaches a moral lesson, often using animals as characters
a fable