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Replace the missing words. Persistence
How fast did Friendship 7 travel in its 4 hour and 56 minute ight? Do the math!
When Katherine was _____________ at NASA, women were not allowed in the spaceflight meetings. She kept ____________ if she could go, even asking if there was a _________ against it. Her persistence paid off and she was finally invited to attend all ______________.
Over time, even though electronic ____________ took on more work at NASA, Johnson remained highly valued for her accuracy. She performed calculations for John Glenn’s successful orbits around Earth in Friendship 7 in 1962, as well as the Apollo 11 and 13 flights to the __________. Working on these manned flight paths was stressful. Katherine knew that if her calculations were off by even a few feet or seconds, the astronauts might not make it ____________! miles per hour
Standards Link: Students use strategies to understand literary passages.
KATHERINE CURIOSITY POSITIVE ACCURACY COMPUTER COUNTED DISHES
Humility
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
Katherine won many awards and made history for the space program, for women’s rights and for racial equality. But she always remained
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humble. She quoted her father. Replace the vowels to find out what her father would tell her. “Y_ _ AR_ AS G_ _D AS _NYB_DY. B_T Y_ _ ’RE N_ B_TT_R.”
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Standards Link: Follow simple written directions.
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