Hidden Figures
The "computers" at NASA weren’t machines but real people who used this subject to solve complex problems.
What is Mathematics?
In The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe is the........
What is the Author?
C.E.C
What is Claim, Evidence, Commentary?
The first line of every paragraph.
What is an indent?
Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California
What are the states that touch the Pacific Ocean?
Mary Jackson became NASA’s first Black female engineer after fighting for the right to take classes at this type of school.
What is an All White School?
What drove the narrator to kill the old man.
What is the old man's eye?
Punctuations, Capitalization, Spelling
What are conventions?
Where a punctuation mark goes after a quote from a text.
What is INSIDE the quotation mark?
11/22/63
During World War II, the demand for skilled workers led to more opportunities for women, especially in this government agency.
What is NASA? (Or NACA)
Who the narrator is to the old man.
Who is his caretaker?
The person who is IN the story, usually the one doing the talking.
What is the narrator?
A or An?: __ Acorn; __ Igloo; __ Ogre
What is AN?
The country that produces the most coffee in the world.
What is Brazil?
Katherine Johnson's calculations helped make this astronaut the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
Who is John Glenn?
The narrator's "over-acuteness of the senses" allows him to do this.
What is hear the old man's heart beating?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot structure?
Names, Places, Months, Days
What are proper nouns?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
At NASA, Black women computers had to use separate bathrooms and worked in a section called this.
What is West Area Computers?
The emotion that drives the narrator to confess to the crime.
What is guilt?
Words that sound like what they mean, like boom, hiss, snap.
What are onomatopoeia words?
What is academic vocabulary?
The year 2014
When did Mr. Jenkins graduate High School?