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Evidence Analysis: Black History

Decide whether each detail supports the stated main idea. Then explain how evidence works and use details from the passage in your own paragraph.

Relevant or Irrelevant Evidence

Main idea: Sofia Bridges showed courage as a child when she helped challenge school segregation.

1.Sofia Bridges was six years old when she became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.

SUPPORTS THE MAIN IDEA
DOES NOT SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA

2.Sofia Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, in 1954.

SUPPORTS THE MAIN IDEA
DOES NOT SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA

3.Federal marshals escorted Sofia to school because crowds opposed the school’s desegregation.

SUPPORTS THE MAIN IDEA
DOES NOT SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA

4.Sofia’s parents were named Abon and Lucille Bridges.

SUPPORTS THE MAIN IDEA
DOES NOT SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA

5.Sofia kept attending school even though many families kept their children home in protest.

SUPPORTS THE MAIN IDEA
DOES NOT SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA

6.Sofia Bridges was born in Mississippi and later moved with her family to New Orleans.

SUPPORTS THE MAIN IDEA
DOES NOT SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA

Explain Your Choices

Use the main idea and a detail from Part 1 to support each explanation.

7.Choose one detail you judged as not supporting the main idea. Explain why it does not show Sofia’s courage or her role in challenging school segregation.

8.Choose one detail you judged as relevant to Sofia’s courage or her role in challenging school segregation. Explain how it relates to the main idea about Sofia.

Build an Evidence-Based Response

Read the passage. Then answer the questions using details from the text.

Katherine Johnson loved working with numbers, and her skill led her to a job at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became NASA. In the 1950s and 1960s, she calculated flight paths for aircraft and spacecraft. Her work required careful mathematics: a small error could send a spacecraft off course. Before electronic computers were widely trusted for spaceflight, astronauts and engineers relied on people to check important calculations. Johnson checked the numbers for Alan Shepard’s 1961 trip, the first American spaceflight. She also helped verify calculations for John Glenn’s 1962 orbit around Earth. Glenn asked for Johnson to check the computer’s figures before his flight. Johnson’s work helped NASA plan missions, and her expertise opened doors for other women and Black professionals in science and mathematics.

9.What is the central idea of “A Mathematician at NASA”? State it in your own words.

10.Write a paragraph of four or five sentences supporting the central idea. Include at least two specific details from the passage, and put quotation marks around any exact words you borrow.