Hidden Figures-
Content
Content
What subject did Katherine Goble & Dorothy Vaughan teach?
Mathematics
“As I peered into the TV screen, I asked myself, can’t these people see just how unhuman, how unjust, how criminal it is to spend $24 billion dollars for space exploration and to dribble out sparse thousands to improve the human predicament ‘down here on the ground.’”
- from “Moon Dust and Black Disgust”
Reflection
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
What is Shetterly's point of view in this quote?
“In the moment that her white co-workers laughed at her, Mary had been demoted from professional mathematician to second-class human being”
-from Hidden Figure pg 87
Outraged and angry
In what city is the school located in?
Evansville, IN
This job at NACA & NASA was made up of mostly female workers.
Computers
“sort of like when you went to the train station or the bus terminal, and you sort of put your suitcase up on the end and sat on that because you couldn’t go inside. That was the cafeteria situation”
-from “Mary Winston Jackson”
Inner Thoughts/Reflection
This anime is about students with superpowers
My Hero Academia
What is William's point of view in this quote?
“Ultimately, however, [Mary] Jackson was not deterred from achieving what no other woman of color had achieved before.”
-from “Mary Winston Jackson"
embarrassing
What does ARMY stand for?
Accountability
Responsibility
Motivation
My Best
Who was laughed at when asking where the bathroom was?
Mary Jackson
“Dr. Twitty Styles, a former student of Vaughan’s, said, ‘She was a tremendously bright woman, very smart . . . She was articulate, and she was invested in her students.’”
-from “From Moton to NASA”
Quotation
This girl attends Westchester Country Day because her dad is the school's exterminator.
Nicole "Nikki" Maxwell
What is the author's point of view on this quote?
“If she got the job, she could be ready to go in forty-eight hours”; “Dorothy had plenty to keep her busy”; “. . . she was ready and eager to do her part to support the war effort and her family”
-from Hidden Figures
Dorothy seems to be that she had high ambitions and was serious about being a provider for her family
How old in the school building?
80 years old
what is this called: "victory over our enemies without" and "victory over our enemies from within"
Double Victory
"Inside the facility, the heat and humidity were so intense that the workers stepped outdoors into the 100-plus-degree summer heat to get relief"
-from Hidden Figures pg 18
Anecdote
George Beard and Harold Hutchins are the story authors of these two book series.
Dogman & Captain Underpants
“She said her mom was much more than an accomplished mathematician”; “‘She wanted us to do the best we could and be the best we could be’”; “‘She always made my clothes and my sisters’ clothes’”
-from “From Moton to NASA”
Dorothy seems to be that, above all, she was committed to her family and community.
How do we evacuate the school from Mrs. Rowes classroom?
in your own words
What newspaper did Dorothy Vaughan read that convinced her to apply to be a mathematician?
Norfolk Journal and Guide
“Vaughan first left her teaching position at Moton in 1943 to work for National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.”
- from “From Moton to NASA”
Exposition
This is the most popular Roblox game of all time
Pet Simulator Adopt Me!
What is the author's point of view in these quotes?
“We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share . . . .”
“a great new American enterprise.”
“I believe we should go to the moon.”
-from JFK's Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs
JFK’s point of view toward space travel is that it is a worthy and necessary cause.
At what level are we at we are evacuating the school?
Level 0