Early Life
What year was Katherine Johnson born?
Katherine was born in 1918.
What is the main subject Katherine Johnson studied in college?
Katherine studied mathematics.
What award did Katherine Johnson receive from President Obama?
Katherine received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama.
This policy separates groups of people from one another, often based on race.
The vocabulary word is segregation.
“In 1956, Katherine’s husband, James Goble, died of brain cancer.”
Is this an example of a possessive noun or a plural noun?
This is an example of a Possessive noun.
At what age did Katherine Johnson start attending high school?
Katherine started high school at age ten.
How was Katherine honored by the astronauts who went to the moon as part of the Apollo Program?
They gave her the American flag that was taken to the moon.
How many children did Katherine Johnson have?
Katherine had three children.
She always insisted on being treated with _______________.
The vocabulary word is dignity.
"Johnson crunched the numbers, rechecking all of her calculations for the mission."
Are these words examples of possessive nouns or plural nouns?
These words are Plural nouns.
How was Katherine able to go to high school?
The Coleman family moved to another city so Katherine could attend a High school for black students.
The choice of careers for African-American women was limited. What career did Katherine choose before she married her husband?
She chose to become a teacher.
In what year did Katherine Johnson pass away?
Katherine died in 2020.
NASA stands for the National ___________ and Space Administration.
The vocabulary word is aeronautics.
"Katherine Johnson’s research continued to be instrumental to NASA’s missions."
What is owned by Katherine Johnson in the above sentence? What is owned by NASA in the above sentence?
Katherine owns the research. NASA owns the missions.
At what age did Katherine Johnson finish high school?
Katherine finished high school at fourteen.
What did Katherine Johnson help calculate for NASA?
Katherine helped to calculate flight trajectories.
How did Katherine Johnson inspire future generations after she retired?
She visited schools to talk to young people about her career.
Katherine’s job was to ____________the all-important numbers that guided the ideas, plans, and tests of aircraft designs.
The vocabulary word is analyze.
"Now she is celebrated for her contributions to some of the country’s greatest scientific achievements." – What are the possessive noun and the plural noun in the above sentence?
The possessive noun is country's.
The plural noun is contributions.
What did Katherine’s parents often remind their children of?
Katherine's parents often reminded their children that they were no better than anyone else, and no one was better than them.
How did Katherine Johnson's work impact the success of space missions?
Katherine's work made sure that the astronauts would land safely.
In 2017, how did NASA honor Katherine?
NASA opened the Katherine G Johnson Computational Research Facility.
Katherine Johnson’s greatest strength was her ability to calculate the flight paths, or _____________of space vehicles.
The vocabulary word is trajectories.
"Finally, it seemed that the U.S. Space program had matched the Soviets’." What type of noun is Soviets’?
Soviets' is a plural possessive noun.