BAPTISTE MEYRIGNAC

DEVOIR ANGLAIS DU VENDREDI 9 AVRIL

ACTIVITE 4 PAGE 49

1) The act of setting apart someone, a group for example skin color or gender.

2) the computer refers at that time to geniuses and technological progress in the space and military
field

3) Margot Lee Shetterly: Author

Theodore Melfi: Director

Katherine Goble: Character

Mary Jackson: Character

Dorothy Vaughan: Character

1) Look at the image and try to imagine what is happening.

We can imagine a police check which may not be justified. It makes you think of our current world.

2) Using your answers to the previous activity (activity 4 page 49), identify the three women on the
picture: Who are they and where do they work?

Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan are three African-American female engineers
working at NASA

3) Time to use your imagination: Guess what will happen next.

we can imagine that they will be beaten or taken to the police station given the current world in
which we live where racism is common. or they will be respected and escorted to their workplace
which is nasa

4) Now watch it and take notes about:

a) The behaviors of the characters at the beginning of the video.

at the beginning the characters are intimidated and distant from the police

b) The behaviors of the characters at the end of the video.

at the beginning the characters are intimidated and distant from the police

c) What year the story takes place.

the story takes place in 1961

5) Using what you know of the situation and your answers to the previous activity, explain the
reactions of the characters (the police officer and the girls).

the reaction of the characters and surprising for us and for them too because never in the history
since 1961 we have never seen black women driving behind a police car to be escorted

this shows us that the time when people of black color were not considered is over even if there is still
racism in the world
#blacklivesmatter