Hidden Figures Chapter 6 DOL - Inferencing & Evidence!

​ (a)   = ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

• Inference
• Prior Knowledge
• Text Evidence

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What is textual evidence?

• Your claim.

• Proof from the text to support your answer.
• What the author thinks about a topic.
• An explanation in your own words about your claim.

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Based on the descriptions in Chapter 6, what can you infer about the importance of the computers' work?

• Their calculations were purely theoretical.
  

• Their work was secondary to that of the engineers.

• Their computations were crucial to wartime aviation.

• Their role was primarily administrative.

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Part A: Based on Chapter 6, what can you infer was Miriam Mann's primary motivation for removing the "colored" signs from the cafeteria?​

• She did not believe in racial discrimination.
• She was collecting historical artifacts.
• She wanted to redecorate the cafeteria space.
• "She chose to eat lunch at her desk instead"

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Part B: What evidence best supports the answer for Part A?

• "She discussed the issue with her supervisor first"

• "The sign would appear again, and she would remove it again, determined to make her point"

• "She gathered signatures from other workers"

• "She chose to eat lunch at her desk instead"

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What can you infer about this time period? Pick two correct answers.

• Segregation affected only the work place.

• Segregation affected all areas of life.

• It limited the freedoms of African Americans.

• It only affected women.

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What evidence supports that Dorothy Vaughan got kicked out of the library for browsing books at a public (segregated) library?

• Her conversation with the woman.

• Her sons reading on the floor.

• Her walking out with the police officer.

• Her telling the police officer not to put his hands on her sons.

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Dorothy states "Just because it is the way, doesn't make it right."

Make an inference on what she means by this?

• Women and men should have access to the same careers.

• The library should have more of a selection for African American people.

• Segregation does not give people equal rights and it is morally unjust.

• Segregation does give people equal rights and it is morally unjust.

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