Black History Month Reading

Black History Month Reading

By JH RDG

Learning Goal:

I can identify key ideas of article. I can cite text to support answers.

By JH RDG

​Continuation from yesterday's article...

​Smith realized that educational opportunities like the one he received were impossible for African Americans in the US, where slavery was still legal in the Southern states. Determined to change that, he joined forces with abolitionists like Frederick Douglass. He also helped start the National Council of Colored People — the first permanent national organization for Black Americans.

​The prolific writer also contributed articles to medical journals and wrote numerous essays challenging the common mistaken beliefs about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general. Smith spent the last two years of his life working as a professor of anthropology at Wilberforce College in Ohio. It was the country's first African American-owned and operated college.

Multiple Choice

Using context clues, what do you think PROLIFIC means?

"The prolific writer also contributed articles to medical journals and wrote numerous essays challenging the common mistaken beliefs about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general."

• productive, inventive, creative

• unproductive, unmotivated

• stinky, smelly

• bad, terrible, worthless

Multiple Choice

The suffix -OLOGY means

• to read

• study of life

• the study of something

• people

Draw

Look at the following sentence.

highlight words/context clues to help you figure out the meaning of ANTHROPOLOGY.

Multiple Choice

Using context clues, what does the word ANTHROPOLOGY MEAN?

"...wrote numerous essays challenging the common mistaken beliefs about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general. Smith spent the last two years of his life working as a professor of anthropology at Wilberforce College in Ohio."

• the study of life

• the study of humans

• the study of science

• the study of history

​Dr. Kizzmekia Corbettis one of the thousands of behind-the-scenes heroes leading the fight against tthe COVID-19 pandemic. The immunologist atthe US National Institutes of Health (NIH) led the team of scientists that helped develop what became the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

​

Corbett's potential was rst recognized by her third-grade teacher, Sue Florence. She told Rhonda Brooks, Corbett’s mother, “She’s got a gift. You’d better seek into it.” Her comments spurred Brooks to set high expectations for Corbettin school. At 15, she was selected to participate inProject SEED, a program that offers research experiences to talented high school students from underrepresented groups in STEM. Her summer atthe chemistry lab at the University of NorthCarolina atChapel Hill (UNC) got her hooked on the subject.

Open Ended

What did Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett do?

Open Ended

Who first recognized Corbett's potential?

Open Ended

What hooked Corbettto science?

​After completing a dual degree in biology and sociology at the University of Maryland, Corbett went on to earn her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from UNC. As fate would have it, she spent her six years at the NIH leading a research team that studied potential vaccines for other coronaviruses, such as MERS. Hence, when COVID-19 struck, Corbett and her team had the know-how to fight the deadly pandemic.

Open Ended

Why were Corbett and her team qualied to develop the COVID-19 vaccine?

​The 35-year-old recently joined the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as an assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. While her new role entails researching new coronaviruses and other infectious diseases, Corbett's quest to end the current pandemic is far from over. She now leads the charge to educate and convince unvaccinated Americans about the safety of the vaccines.

​

"I’ve basically spent the last year, I guess, fighting against misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines," she told the Associated Press. “We think that we can just say, ‘The science is good,’ and people are going to say, ‘OK, yeah, I’ll take the vaccine,' when their questions instead need greater attention."

Open Ended

What will Corbettdo at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health?

Open Ended

What is Corbett doing to help end theCOVID-19 pandemic?