Directions:

1. Listen to chapter 11 of Hidden Figures and the photo of the text “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.

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.