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1. Are you on pace with your reading and tiles on the book club padlet.

2. What is the genre of your book and why?

3. What is the background of the character?

4. What is  the setting (time and place)?

5. Why is the setting important?

6. Can you determine a theme and make a theme statement?

7. What is the message the author is trying to convey?

8. What choices did the author make that helped you understand what was happening in the book?

9. What did you find interesting about the book?

10. How did the book make you think or feel about the issue that was being presented?

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Day #11 February 16, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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Day #11 February 16, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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MLK came to the March on Washington and delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech

300,000 people came to the March on Washington to hear many people speak

Katherine Johnson invited Christine to join the choir at church

Katherine tried to do her absolute best with her calculations because even if they were a tiny bit wrong, someones life could be endangered

All together the Apollo missions took $24 billion dollars, or $156 billion dollars in today money

On July 20, 1969, more than 600 million people around the world watched their TV's, to watch Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong land onto the moon

Neil Armstrong successfully landed the rocket on the moon on the first try

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Day #11 February, 16  Stop and Jot notes

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Day #11 February, 16  Stop and Jot notes

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. The Spacecraft was able to successfully land and the astronauts returned to their homes

. Katherine was now discussing with her colleagues about sending the Apollo to mars

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Day #10 February 15, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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Day #10 February 15, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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Katherine's calculations were so good that they matched the computers

135 million people were watching Friendship 7 getting boosted into orbit

John Glen was a hero and had an audience with the president, and a ticker tape parade in New York City

Stopped on pg. 185

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There are more and more protests about black people getting their rights

NASA purchased 3 more computers

President Kennedy said that he wanted someone on the moon by the end of the decade

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. Katherine Johnson's calculations and the IBM computer's calculations used to mostly be the same so the IBM computer would mostly be checking Katherine's calculations

. Katherine was always very confident in her calculations and work.

. The spacecraft at first had multiple issues including the heat shield being loose and the NASA engineers losing signal of John Glenn but John managed to fix the heat shield

. The landing only managed to be off by 40 miles and the computers were able to predict that John Glenn would have a safe landing

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Day #9 February, 14 Stoop and Jot notes:

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Day #9 February, 14 Stoop and Jot notes:

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. There were rumors that the astronauts supported the students protests for equal rights

. At Langley the segregated pool was starting to integrate with the other computing centers

. Men also started to get computing jobs at Langley

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There was a lot of violence going on with the U.S and other countries so the students in schools had to practice duck and cover drills

. The segregated schools had old and broken down textbooks and one of the school buses crashed so a women named Barbara Johns took action to integrate schools

. Some students thought they would not be good enough for the white students who had better school conditions

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Day# 8  February 12, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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Day# 8  February 12, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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The U.S. and the Soviet Union were getting scared of each other having a nuclear war

The students learned that they will be going to school with other white kids too

Christine didn't know if that would be good because she thought that the white kids would be better because they had more supplies

Sputnik got sent into space by the Russians, and was the first satellite in space

In October, 1958, NACA got changed to NASA

Katherine got changed to a new boss and a new setting

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. Langley were trying to make an aircraft that could go into space

. Langley got new calculators that were computers to replace the women

. The new calculators were more efficient and could solve really long calculations in just a couple of hours

. The women trying really hard to get qualified for other jobs at Langley

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Day #7: February 8, 2024, Stop and Jot notes 

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Day #7: February 8, 2024, Stop and Jot notes 

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Outside of Langley, there were always rules about who could be together, but in Langley, the rules were more fuzzy

Langley bought their first electronic calculator

NACA bought its first computers from IBM

Mary got into Hampton High school and gets to go their for classes

It was a race to see who would get to the Moon first (the Soviet Union or the U.S.)

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. Mary Jackson was really interested in the complex calculations behind making engineering

. Mark Jackson would stick by her work and got a reputation for being a really dedicated mathematician

. She worked under Dorothy Vaughan

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Day #6: February 8, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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Day #6: February 8, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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Mary always stood by her work even when her boss thought it was wrong (and Mary was usually right!)

Katherine's father was a math wiz

The state of West Virginia had to make one of their existing schools open its doors to black people because they had no black only colleges

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. Dorothy had a very strong and independent mind and was an amazing leader

. She was then assigned a management role after the former leader left

. Mary Jackson came to work for Dorothy

. Mary Jackson got married and had kids and was a stay at home Mom for while

. Mary Jackson was good at lifting other people up and raising their expectations

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Day #5: February 7, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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Day #5: February 7, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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-Dorothy Hoover was the first African-American woman to leave the computing pool and get a chance at a research job working directly with an engineer

-In 1949 Dorothy's boss suffered a mental breakdown and was forced to leave her work

-Mary Winston Jackson came to work for Dorothy

-Mary marries Levi Jackson and they get married in 1944

-Mary had a son

-People got scared that Russia was going to make the U.S. a communist country

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Day #4: February 6, 2024, Stop and Jot notes 

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-B-29 airplanes were the new and advanced airplanes in their day (for the war)

-She sometimes worked 18 hour days! Which left little time to be with her family

-Dorothy's mother-in-law did not like the idea of her children moving into where she works

-The U.S. government was trying to uplift her house and community

-They were trying to make an aircraft capable of flying faster than sound

-Stopped on pg. 72

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Day #4 February,6 2024 Stop and Jot notes  

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Day #4 February,6 2024 Stop and Jot notes  

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. Langley was trying to make the best planes for the wars

. Dorothy became really involved in the war

. Dorothy moved to a new neighborhood that had a larger African- American population

. When the war ended women were starting to lose their jobs at NACA

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Day #3 February 5, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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Day #3 February 5, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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. Dorothy Vaughan first day at Langley was at around d-day

. Everybody in Dorothy's work building were black meaning that Langley was very segregated

. The signs in the cafeteria were segregated

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Day #3 February 5, 2024, Stop and Jot notes

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-In 1940 only 2 percent of black women got college degrees.

-When working they weren't as segregated but in the bathrooms and cafeteria their were signs to show where colored people should sit.

-They had to help out the Tuskegee Airmen with their planes so they could go even faster and be an even better plane.

-They weren't allowed to talk about what work they were doing to their family or friends.

-F and P meant pursuit planes, C was for cargo planes, B was for bombers and X marked the spot of experimental planes.

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. African Americans were really hit back during the great depression because they struggled to find jobs.

. World war ll gave the ladys a chance to become mathematicians because the jobs used to previously be filled by men but they were all serving in the military.

. The U.S were trying to make really efficient planes.

. African Americans did not have access to white colleges.

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Day #2 February 2nd, Stop and Jot notes. 

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-Many black people and women were treated unfairly in their working conditions

-It was hard to get a real and good paying job.

-She got a job that let her express her mathematical ability's

-Her new job made it so that she only saw her children on holidays!

-Stopped on pg 36.

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-She grew up in Hampton, Virginia.

-She grew up around a lot of people that were smart and/or interested in NASA and space

-They did a lot of fun stuff with NASA because her dad worked there.

-Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christie Darden (Main Characters)

-Everything was very segregated

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. Katherine's dad worked at NASA

. A lot of people in her hometown were mathematicians and scientists.

. Because there were so many African American people working at NASA, she associated engineers and mathematicians with African Americans.

. The main characters our Dorothy Vaughan., Katherine Johnson,Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden and they all loved math

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I want to know what other really big things happened, like if there was something else that happened. And I also want to know how hard it was to get onto the moon.

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What motivated Katherine Johnson to keep working for NASA.

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1961

Katherine Johnson helped John Glenn land on the moon.

Black people were segregated at the time.

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It was near the time when people went on the moon. Katherine helped John Glen land on the moon. Black people were very segregated.

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