Lesson 4: Hidden Figures, Prologue–Chapter 1

Today you will

• Determine a central idea in the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Hidden Figures and explain how specific details support and expand that idea.

• Explain a central idea using evidence frames, transitions, and paraphrased details from the text. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).

• Write complete complex sentences with subordinating conjunctions to connect claims and evidence.