Timeline
In what year did the first airplane take flight?
1903
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Name a character who is still alive today
Katherine Johnson
Christine Darden
A person, place, thing, or idea
1935
The curved path of an object or spacecraft as it revolves around a star, planet, or moon
Orbit
When did Dorothy Vaughan begin working at NACA?
1943
An action word
A verb
Who was the first person to orbit the earth?
Yuri Gagarin
Keeping people separate, based on race (in schools, movie theaters, bathrooms, etc. et.)
Segregation
Who was an expert on sonic booms?
Christine Dard
Will, Was, Can, Be, and Is are examples of what kind of verb?
Helping verb or Linking verb
Which country launched the first satellite?
The Soviet Union/Russia
What does NACA stand for?
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
List the characters (first & last names) of Hidden Figures in correct historical order
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden
In what tense (past, present, future) is this sentence: She was so mad, she threw her book out the window!
Past tense
When was school segregation outlawed in the United States?
1954
In the 1940s-50s, what was a computer?
A computer was a person who did math for their job
Who helped John Glenn successfully orbit the earth with her calculations?
Katherine Johnson
What is the helping verb and the action verb in this sentence:
She was so mad, she threw her book out the window!
Was = helping verb
Threw = action verb