Grammar
How can you form a compound sentence without using a fanboys conjunction?
semicolon
What do all the women in this book teach us about family?
Family comes first!
“It is very important that you don’t show the girls any special treatment, or let up on them in any way,”
Katherine
Who was America in a Cold War with and also competing in the Space Race against?
Russia
What two things must a sentence have?
A subject and a predicate.
List the FANBOYS conjunctions
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so
What theme does Mary Jackson demonstrate when she is insulted by those girls who laugh at her at work?
Speak up!
"[She] was now the mother and father, the love and the discipline, the carrot and the stick, and the sole breadwinner."
Katherine Johnson
Which president passed Executive Orders 8802 and 9346?
FDR- Franklin Roosevelt
How did Katherine Goble handle the bathroom situation when she was working on the East side?
She simply used the white restroom.
What is wrong with this sentence?
"I wanted to go swimming but it started raining."
Place a comma after swimming.
What theme does Katherine show after she and her daughters lose Jimmy Goble?
Kids need to be encouraged to succeed, even when life isn’t fair.
"She picked the right person to vent to. What had started as one of the worst workdays [she] had ever had would end up being the turning point of her career"
Mary Jackson
What was the name of the first satellite put into space?
Sputnik
Where should the semicolon go?
She not only worked hard she thrived at her job.
She not only worked hard; she thrived at her job.
What is wrong with this sentence?
"After we ate dinner we went to the movies."
Place a comma after the word dinner
What theme does each of these women show about intelligence/ education in this story?
Education breaks barriers.
"....though only nineteen years old, (she) felt it was her responsibility to ensure that the family could make it through the hard times...."
Dorothy Vaughan (p.13)
Name the first American astronaut to go into orbit around the Earth.
John Glenn
What job did Dorothy Vaughan take in order to help provide for her children. (It was the lowest paying job in the military)
What is the name of the grammatical device being utilized in this sentence?
The basketball coach, Mr. Robinson, yelled at the referee for making a bad call.
apposition/appositive
Explain why the novel is called "Hidden Figures."
Teacher accepted response.
"She had made a solemn promise to her husband that she would do everything in her power to keep their bright, lively daughters on the path they had so carefully paved for them from the beginning of their lives."
What was the name of the civil rights activist that helped facilitate the desegregation of the defense industry?
A. Phillip Randolph
What's the Supreme Court and how does it influence the lives of Americans?