HIDDEN FIGURES

Chapter 3
By Ahmad, Sufian, Haider
Title

The title of 3rd chapter “past is prologue” means that past affects
the events in future. Prologue means an event or act that leads
to another. Past means gone by in time. These words
together mean that past is the future, it always effects future.
For you to understand better we also have an example :
Your job is affected by what you scored in the past.
Basically, if you do good, better will come to you and if did
bad, worse will come to you.
Plot

The 1943 school year begins at Farmville's Robert Russa

Moton High School. Dorothy Vaughan and her 12 fellow
teachers welcome 301 students to the overcrowded facility.
Vaughan will be teaching arithmetic and algebra in the
auditorium alongside two other classes. Dorothy always
travels miles to reach her work station at Langley. To Dorothy
this meant a social mobility as she had to travel 137 miles from
Farmville to Langley plus she also gets to interact with white
people.
Katherine Johnson & Dorothy Vaughan

1- Katherine and Dorothy both were intelligent in the field of

maths.
2- Katherine lived in Marion, Virginia.
3- Katherine also studied french which Dorothy looked as a
opposite version of her own story.
4- They both had skipped ahead in school.
Vocabulary

Attenuate: become weak in value or strength.

Discourse: a long communication on a topic.
Feverish: having or showing the symptoms of a fever.
Irrevocably: an action that can't be changed or reversed.e:g
your action from past cannot be changed.
Summary
IN 1939, ROBERT RUSSA MOTON HIGH SCHOOL IS BUILT WITH LESS
SPACE AND A NUMBER OF 180 STUDENTS AND THIS WAS A SCHOOL
WHERE DOROTHY VAUGHAN AND TWELVE OTHER WOMEN GOT AN
OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH. DOROTHY WORKED HARD TO IMPROVE THE
LONG TERM EDUCATIONAL PROSPECTS OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF
FARMVILLE. NOW THE WAR HAD BEGUN THE CHILDREN OF THE SCHOOL
HAD STARTED TO MAKE CARE PACKAGES FOR THE DEPARTING
SERVICEMEN.THE COMMUNITY STARTED TO MAKE FEASTS FOR THE
PEOPLE FIGHTING IN THE WAR.
She was no longer a single student with an itinerant soul but a wife and mother of
four children. The job at Langley was a full-time position and required a six-day
workweek at an office too far away to come home on weekends, as she had done
during the summer at Camp Pickett.