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✨ #22 Compare/Contrast Mary Winston Jackson

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8 questions

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.

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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 they say about Mary?
1

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

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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 do they both say about Mary?

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?
1

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 Johnson" ?

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What is ONE way BOTH of the authors gave the reader information?

Point of view: Perspective


What is the authors' point of view of what Mary experienced?
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How does the author of Hidden Figures feel about Mary?

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How does the author of the photo text "Mary Winston Johnson" feel about Mary?