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    This summary provides the key details from chapters 1-5 of the Hidden Figures worksheet: 1. Dorothy Vaughan struggles to find work after the 1929 stock market crash but eventually lands a job as a mathematician at the Langley Research Center. 2. Mary Jackson dreams of becoming an engineer and feels angry about discrimination she faces. She leads the local Girl Scouts group. 3. The worksheet questions cover topics like Dorothy's journey to work at Langley, the purpose of painting the buildings green, and the calculations done by mathematicians to improve aircraft designs and aerodynamics.

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    This summary provides the key details from chapters 1-5 of the Hidden Figures worksheet: 1. Dorothy Vaughan struggles to find work after the 1929 stock market crash but eventually lands a job as a mathematician at the Langley Research Center. 2. Mary Jackson dreams of becoming an engineer and feels angry about discrimination she faces. She leads the local Girl Scouts group. 3. The worksheet questions cover topics like Dorothy's journey to work at Langley, the purpose of painting the buildings green, and the calculations done by mathematicians to improve aircraft designs and aerodynamics.

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    This summary provides the key details from chapters 1-5 of the Hidden Figures worksheet: 1. Dorothy Vaughan struggles to find work after the 1929 stock market crash but eventually lands a job as a mathematician at the Langley Research Center. 2. Mary Jackson dreams of becoming an engineer and feels angry about discrimination she faces. She leads the local Girl Scouts group. 3. The worksheet questions cover topics like Dorothy's journey to work at Langley, the purpose of painting the buildings green, and the calculations done by mathematicians to improve aircraft designs and aerodynamics.

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    Hidden Figures Worksheet

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    This summary provides the key details from chapters 1-5 of the Hidden Figures worksheet: 1. Dorothy Vaughan struggles to find work after the 1929 stock market crash but eventually lands a job as a mathematician at the Langley Research Center. 2. Mary Jackson dreams of becoming an engineer and feels angry about discrimination she faces. She leads the local Girl Scouts group. 3. The worksheet questions cover topics like Dorothy's journey to work at Langley, the purpose of painting the buildings green, and the calculations done by mathematicians to improve aircraft designs and aerodynamics.

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    Hidden Figures Worksheet

    Chapter 1-10

    Chapters 1–2
    1 Choose the correct answers.
    a) What was Dorothy not able to do after the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
    get a job ✓ study in Washington DC
    b) Which two jobs did Dorothy Vaughan have?
    *teacher cigarette *factory worker *washerwoman
    c) Where do Dorothy and her young family live?
    *with her husband’s parents *with her parents
    d) Why are the buildings at Langley painted green?
    *Because enemy spy planes might see them. *Because local people are upset by their size.
    e) Where does Dorothy learn about a job as a mathematician?
    *in a newspaper *in the post office

    2 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false sentences.
    a) Newport News is not far from Dorothy’s home in Farmville.
    ..................................................................
    b) Dorothy finds Newport News very different to Farmville.
    ……………………………………………….
    c) She is unable to find anywhere to stay.
    ..................................................................
    d) She travels by bus for her first day at Langley.
    ..................................................................
    e) There is no Coloured Line on the bus.
    ..................................................................
    f) She starts her new job on D-Day.
    ..................................................................

    Chapters 3–5
    1 Complete the sentences with these words. There are more words than you need.

    Adventures, calculations, engineers, fields, locals, pilots, signs, tunnels

    a) Dorothy could see green .................. through her office window.


    b) None of the tables in the cafeteria had .................., except one.
    c) Many of the .................. in Hampton thought the NACA scientists were strange.
    d) Many .................. died in the early days of flight testing.
    e) The black newspapers ran stories about the ..................of the Tuskegee airmen.
    f) Dorothy worked on the .................. to improve the Mustang planes.
    2 Read ‘Aerodynamics: How does a plane fly?’ Match these words to their definitions.
    a) forces i) This pulls the plane to the ground.
    b) weight ii) This makes the plane move forward.
    c) lift iii) This slows the flying object down.
    d) drag iv) Four of these are needed for flight.
    e) thrust v) This is caused by the difference in pressure above and below the wings.

    3 Complete the sentences about Mary Jackson with the correct forms of the verbs.

    Become, believe, feel, lead, show

    a) Mary ............... angry about the way the white computers spoke to her.
    b) When she was young, Mary dreamed of ............... an engineer.
    c) Mary and her family ............... in helping the community.
    d) Mary ............... the local group of Girl Scouts.
    e) She wanted............... her Girl Scouts that anything was possible.

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