Mae Jemison
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Spelling
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Ear
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germ
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return
early
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smear
pearl
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nerve
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dawn
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Vocabulary
Overcoming obstacles to become an astronaut
 Astronaut:
a person trained to participate
in the flight of spacecraft
 Launches:
 Mission:
put into action by force
an operation that is assigned to
achieve certain goals
Vocabulary
Overcoming obstacles to become an astronaut
 Satellite:
a device made to orbit the earth
while performing a task
 Space
shuttle: a spacecraft launched like
a rocket that can return to earth and land
like a plane
 Specialist:
one who becomes an expert in
a particular field
 Orbit:
the path of a spacecraft around the
earth
 Reusable:
able to be used again
 Weightless:
weight
the condition of being without
Reading Strategy:
Monitor/Clarify
 It
is important to stop and check your
understanding of a story as your read.
 This
will help you become a better reader
and understand what you read at the end
of the story.
Comprehension Skill: Topic, Main
Idea, and Supporting Details
 We
can use the monitor/clarify strategy to
figure out the topic, main idea, and
supporting details in a story.
 Topic:
the subject most of the paragraphs
tell about
 Main
ideas: the most important ideas
about the topic
 Supporting
details: the small pieces that
make up the main idea
Discussion Questions p212
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3.
Why did some adults try to discourage
Mae from pursuing her goals?
What personal strengths did Mae
Jemison demonstrate during her youth,
and how did these help her reach her
goals?
Why did the author include details about
Mae’s accomplishments in school?
p. 220-221
8.
What details did the author include about
Mae Jemison’s duties aboard
Endeavour?
9.
Were you surprised that Mae Jemison
left the astronaut corps soon after
completing her mission? Why or why
not?
p. 214
4.
What challenge did Mae face in Kenya,
and how did she overcome it?
p. 218-219
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6.
7.
How do you think Mae Jemison felt while
she was waiting for an opportunity to fly
on a space mission?
How did her achievement help combat
prejudice?
How did Mae Jemison’s journey into
space help advance scientific
knowledge?
p. 222
10.
What new goals did Mae Jemison set for
herself after leaving the astronaut corps?
11.
Why do you think the author of this
selection chose Mae Jemison as the
subject of a biography?
Structural Analysis: Suffixes –ive
and -ic
 Artistic
 Majestic
 Conclusive
 Adaptive
Grammar
Verb Tenses
 Verbs
have forms, or tenses, that tell when
the action happens.
 A present tense verb shows action that
happens now, or that happens regularly
over time.
 To form the present tense, add –s or –es
to most verbs if the subject is singular. Do
not add –s or –es if the subject is plural or
I or you.
Grammar
Verb Tenses
 A past
tense verb shows that something
already happened.
 To form the past tense, add –ed to most
verbs.
 Mission specialists perform experiments in
space.
 Mae Jemison performed experiments on
the effects of weightless.
Practicelocate verbs, label past or present
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Many space probes carry robots instead of
astronauts.
A robot photographed the Martian landscape in
1997.
Millions of people viewed those photographs
on computers.
A probe to Mars travels for eleven months.
Astronauts lose bone cells on long flights.
Mae Jemison studied this process on her
space flight.