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Why did Dorothy feel as though she was a member of an exclusive club working at NACA?

I think that Dorothy felt that she was working at a special club because...

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How are Miriam Mann’s actions at work SIMILAR to events happening outside Langley?

I think that what Miriam was doing is similar to the civil rights movement because...

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Why did the West Computers take extra measures to support each other in the workplace?

I think the women took extra steps to support eachother because...

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Pick one of the photos - it should show what this sentence means to you.

Why do you think that photo represents the sentence:

Focus Sentence:

“Because of the discrimination, they believed that African Americans needed to be twice as good to get half as far as their white counterparts.” ?

This photo shows what the focus sentence means because...

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"African Americans needed to be twice as good"

"Twice as good"

What skill did the African American women in this book need to be twice as good at?

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"African Americans needed to be twice as good"

"Twice as good"

Why did the West Computers feel like they had to be twice as good at math as white men with the same job?

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"to get half as far as their white counterparts."

“counterparts”

Based on the sentence, what do you think the word counterparts means? How did you figure it out?

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"to get half as far as their white counterparts."

“counterparts”

According to this sentence, even if the African American West Computers were twice as good at their jobs as the white mathematicians were, how successful did they feel they could be?

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"they believed that"

“they”

How is the pronoun they vague or unclear?

Rewrite the sentence to correct the vague (unclear) pronoun

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"because of the discrimination"

What does this chunk tell us?

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Whole sentence:

"Because of the discrimination, they believed that African Americans needed to be twice as good to get half as far as their white counterparts.

Chunk:

"because of the discrimination"

What if "because of the discrimination" were removed from the sentence?

How would the meaning or emphasis of the sentence change?

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Whole sentence:

"Because of the discrimination, they believed that African Americans needed to be twice as good to get half as far as their white counterparts.

Chunk:

"because of the discrimination"

Can this chunk be moved to other parts of the sentence?

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Whole sentence:

"Because of the discrimination, they believed that African Americans needed to be twice as good to get half as far as their white counterparts.

Chunk:

"because of the discrimination"

Can you figure out why the author chose to put this chunk at the beginning of the sentence rather than at the middle or end?

Finish the sentence explaining why the West Computers formed a close friendship.

(this is from YOUR head!)

"Because of ________________________________________________,the West Computers formed a close friendship"

Which sentence best represents a claim that could be supported from this excerpt?

Which two of the following sentences are reasons that support the claim in question 1?

PICK TWO

Which two pieces of evidence support the reasons in question 2?

PICK TWO