Analyzing Real-Life Characters
by Stella Castilla and Lizzie Powers
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Download these free printable worksheets to help your students practice evidence-based analysis while reading Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: Young Readers’ Edition or Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race written with Winifred Conkling and illustrated by Laura Freeman.
If you’re using the picture-book edition in your classroom, download this free character-map worksheet. Students will analyze one of the four female main characters in the story and describe how she represents a positive role model.
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If you’re using the young readers’ edition in your classroom, have your students interpret the meaning behind the title Hidden Figures.
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How did your students respond to this true story? We’d love to hear from you! Please share with us on social media using the hashtag #ScholasticBookClubs.
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