Important
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
The acronym STEM stands for
What is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math?
At the beginning of the film, the ladies' car breaks down. They make it to work by...
Fixing the car themselves and then receiving an escort from a police officer.
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
The restrooms at NASA were initially segregated.
True.
Hidden Figures follows the journey of these three women
Who are Mary, Katherine, and Dorothy?
The definition of the word computer as it is used in Hidden Figures refers to...
An individual who calculated the trajectory for safe and successful launches and landings.
Mary Jackson showed great perseverance as she tried to get the opportunity to earn her engineering degree. She had to go to court for what reason?
The classes were held at then-segregated Hampton High School, however, Mary needed special permission from the City of Hampton to join her white peers in the classroom.
What is the speaker'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"
inspiring
The film depicts discrimination on the basis of both race and gender.
True.
How many children did Katherine Johnson have?
3
What does the term trajectory mean and how does its meaning show the importance of the computers' work?
the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.
"Virginia acts like Brown vs. the Board of Education never happened." What did Brown vs. the Board of Education determine?
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
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 highly ambitious and serious about being a provider for her family
John Glenn personally asked that Katherine Johnson recheck the calculations for his flight.
True
Until segregated restrooms were eliminated, Katherine Johnson had to run this many mile(s) ROUND TRIP to use the bathroom on the NASA campus.
What is one mile? (0.5 miles in one direction)
NASA stands for
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The movie briefly showed Katherine and her husband watching a news segment about the Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders were...
Freedom Riders was a group of racially integrated civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
What is the author's point of view?
“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 is a committed mother who cares for her family.
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in this spacecraft which he named Friendship 9.
False. Friendship 7 is the correct answer.
Hidden Figures, the film, was set in this year.
1961
The film is titled, Hidden Figures. Why do you think that is?
It refers both to the women themselves, who were doing this work for many years and people didn't see them; and it refers to the mathematics conducted by the women.
Who authorized Katherine to attend the Pentagon briefings? Why was it important that she was in attendance?
Al Harrison; so that she did not have to recalculate or scrap her work when new information was available
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.
Mr. Harrison knocked the colored restroom signage down randomly.
The acronym, IBM, stands for...
International Business Machines