THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND
This is the country where William and his family live.
What is Malawi?
She is the mathematician who calculates important flight trajectories for NASA.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
A speaker asks, "How can we accept this injustice?" without expecting an actual answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
This is the writer's main position or argument about an issue.
What is a claim?
This mode of persuasion appeals to logic, facts, evidence and reasoning.
What is logos?
This natural resource is essential for growing the crops that William's community depends on.
What is rain/water?
She becomes a supervisor and teaches herself programming to remain valuable in a changing workplace.
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
We will work. We will fight. We will succeed.
What is anaphora?
These are the reasons and evidence a writer uses to support their claim.
What are grounds?
This mode persuades by establishing credibility, expertise, authority or trustworthiness.
What is ethos?
William's family depends heavily on this activity for their livelihood.
What is farming/agriculture?
She wants to become an engineer and challenges the educational restrictions preventing her from taking the necessary classes.
Who is Mary Jackson?
Education creates opportunity, independence and change.
What is a rule of three?
This acknowledges an opposing viewpoint and then responds to or challenges it.
What is a rebuttal?
Katherine Johnson's mathematical calculations helped NASA determine the trajectory needed for John Glenn's mission.
What is logos?
William's idea for solving the famine involves building this machine to produce electricity and pump water.
What is a windmill?
Mary Jackson faces an educational barrier because she needs permission to attend classes at this type of institution.
What is an all-white school?
Students deserve to be heard, to be respected and to be supported.
What is parallelism?
This explains why the evidence supports the claim by connecting the evidence to the writer's reasoning.
What is a warrant?
William's community was facing famine, yet he refused to give up because he knew that finding a solution could give his family and neighbours hope.
What is pathos?
William's community experiences this because the crops fail and food becomes scarce.
What is famine?
Dorothy Vaughan overcomes an employment challenge by learning this emerging technology.
What is computer programming?
Some students have every resource they need, while others struggle to access the basics.
What is juxtaposition?
This indicates the strength or limits of a claim using words such as often, usually, generally, probably, or in most cases.
What is a qualifier?
Some may argue that the women succeeded simply because they were exceptionally talented. However, their experiences show that talent alone is not enough when people are denied equal opportunities.
What are rebuttal and logos?