Starting Week Fifteen

5/17 TO 5/24

Welcome to Week Fifteen!

Our semester is almost complete. We will finish Hidden Figures this week and next week we'll examine Great Writing 5 text, ending with Unit 7, Argument essay for final exam.

 

Continue working on your Reaction Essay #3 which is due, anytime before or no later than the deadline: Thursday, May 20, Midnight.

 

In the meantime, this Module contains historical background material contained in Chapters 19 - 23 of Hidden Figures. I hope you enjoy viewing these short videos on very important events that take place within those chapters:

• Background information on the American Soap Box Derby
• Greensboro Four in the first Civil Rights "sit in" at a restaurant in North Carolina
• Russia launching its first astronaut in orbit around Earth in April, 1961
• Americans launching Alan Shepard in space in May, 1961
• John Glenn's first orbital flight around the Earth, February, 1962
• Civil Rights March on Washington, August, 1963
• Americans landing on the Moon, August, 1969 (end of our Reader)

Continue reading Hidden Figures, Chapters 19-23 (end).

Next, are the above videos, then Chapters 19-23 assignment, with a Quiz to follow.