Hidden Figures Lesson Plan and Book Companion
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This lesson plan is designed for intermediate students using the picture book, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. This comprehensive lesson plan is full of engaging opportunities to discuss the four inspiring female mathematicians. This download is loaded with options to customize for the perfect-fit lesson for your students. A wide variety of book companion activities (including a differentiated nonfiction passage) can be done at a time that works best for your class!
From WWII through the Space Race, four African American mathematicians made an enormous impact on history serving their country and sending America to the moon. Facing racial challenges, these heroines made history by persevering and using their talents to achieve their dreams.
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to describe the similarities among the women mathematicians by comparing their traits and actions in Hidden Figures.
In this lesson, rigorous text dependent questions get students thinking about the traits and actions of Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden. By the end of the lesson, students will compare the mathematicians’ similarities. Carefully crafted text dependent questions facilitate the learning while using the anchor chart. At the end of the lesson, students will respond to the following prompt independently: Describe the similarities among the four women computers in Hidden Figures. **There are three differentiated assessment options for your students.
**Be sure to check out the preview of this lesson for a more in-depth look, including differentiated options for YOUR students!**
For the lesson, teacher resources include:
- teacher guide with skill rationale/teacher language,
- lesson plan with stopping points,
- text-dependent questions (and scaffolding questions for each),
- expected student responses,
- post-its to print questions and place in book for easy reference during the lesson,
- large printable form of the essential question, student friendly objective, and questions to post for visual learners
There are tons of extras and extensions to be used after the lesson for more fun and learning!
- Vocabulary word cards - 5 from the story and 4 blank cards
- Infer vocabulary meaning and context clues graphic organizer
- Vocabulary activity options
- Photographs representing each vocabulary word
- Visualize story events on a movie reel.
- Summarize the text using their vocabulary words. Two differentiated versions included.
- Determine importance by sorting "important" and "not important" details
- Infer the theme of the story and record three pieces of text evidence to support it.
- Character map graphic organizer for each of the women mathematicians
- Biography profile
- Identify cause and Effect relationships. Includes two versions.
- Write a letter to one of the women from the text.
- Make text-to-self connections with story events. Two options included.
- Discuss and respond to interpretive questions. Four options are included.
- Prefix im- and suffix -ful printables
- Make new words using letters in "perseverance".
- Analyze a sentence from the text in the “Sentence Spotlight”.
- Read a nonfiction passage about Katherine Johnson as a nonfiction connection to the story and answer comprehension questions. Three differentiated levels are included.
Thanks for checking out this lesson plan; please let me know if you have any questions before purchasing.
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Black History Month Nonfiction Reading Passages
Women in History Nonfiction Reading Passages
The Oldest Student (Mary Walker)
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