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#22 Compare/Contrast Mary Winston Jackson

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15 questions
Directions:
1. Read the excerpt from chapter 11 of Hidden Figures and “Mary Winston Jackson” (below)
2. Look at how each author showed Mary’s life. Compare and contrast in terms of the content included, the authors’ methods used to convey content, and the points of view being conveyed.

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TO this chapter!

Link to chapter 11 audiobook:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18CfHDeaIjCGkho6pSka-lpDSUA1l33Zz?usp=sharing_eil&ts=5fdaa90d


Chapter 11 summary:

  • Dorothy Vaughan assigned Mary Jackson to a task in another office. Mary asked some white coworkers the location of the restroom. The women giggled and could offer no help to navigate Mary to the Colored Women’s restroom.
  • Mary was offended and quite angry. She felt as though her mind and her work were just as high quality as her coworkers’.
  • When Mary encountered the Assistant Section Head of the Supersonic Pressure Tunnel, she expressed her anger to him about the situation from earlier in the day regarding the restroom.
  • He sympathized with Mary and asked her to come work for him. Mary transferred to his research team.
  • Mary was assigned a task by a division chief. Mary completed the task and turned in her work, which she had checked over twice. The division chief thought something was off, and he doubted Mary’s calculations. Mary stood by her work.
  • When Mary and the division chief looked at the information again, they found that the division chief had given Mary incorrect numbers. The division chief apologized to Mary.

CONTENT: what the text is talking about


How are the two texts DIFFERENT and the SAME based on what the text is talking about?
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What happened in chapter 11 that DID NOT happen in the text "Mary Winston Jackson" (above)?

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What happened in chapter 11 that DID NOT happen in the text "Mary Winston Jackson" (above)?

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How is the content of "Mary Winston Jackson" DIFFERENT from chapter 11 of Hidden Figures ?
What in the text "Mary Winston Jackson" (above)? that DID NOT happen in chapter 11 of Hidden Figures?

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What in the text "Mary Winston Jackson" (above)? that DID NOT happen in chapter 11 of Hidden Figures?

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What did BOTH texts talk about?

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What did BOTH texts talk about?

Author's Methods: how the author gives you information


How are the two texts the SAME and DIFFERENT based on the way the authors give you information?
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What author method (from the chart above) shows up ONLY in the chapter of Hidden FIgures?

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What author method (from above) ONLY shows up in the text "Mary Winston Jackson" (above)?

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What author method (from above) ONLY shows up in the photo "Mary Winston Johnson" ?

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What author method (from the chart above) do BOTH authors use?

Point of view: Perspective


What is the authors' point of view of what Mary experienced?
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How is the authors' of Hidden Figures point of view DIFFERENT than the author of "Mary Winston Johnson"?

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How is the authors' of Hidden Figures point of view DIFFERENT than the author of "Mary Winston Johnson"?

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How is the authors' of "Mary Winston Johnson" point of view DIFFERENT than the author of Hidden Figures?

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How is the authors' of "Mary Winston Johnson" point of view DIFFERENT than the author of Hidden Figures?

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How is their point of view the same?