She said, ‘Some teachers would just pretend I wasn’t there. As a black woman, she struggled to achieve equality inside the classroom and outside. Throughout Jemison’s whole elementary and high school experience people constantly told her that her dreams of becoming a female scientist were unrealistic.
She graduated from Morgan Park as an honor student, with the full intent of becoming a biomedical engineer. When she was only three years old, she moved to Chicago and attended Morgan Park High School. Although she was born on October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama, she always considered Chicago to be her real hometown. Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut. My daughter can read this if she’d like (she’ll be disappointed that it takes 200 pages, out of 231, to get to space though) but I’ll be close by to answer questions she’s bound to have (not due to any political/social issues discussed but due to basic writing issues).Jessica Perez, Natalia Swack, Gabrielle Cattan, and Adelle Wade I can see how her experiences and accomplishments can and should be inspiring and informative for all young adults, including but not limited to children of color. Good for some child readers I guess since I know the point is to display her achievements. This is simply her life, not quite in list form and inconsistently written - sometimes just a collection of events, sometimes an attempt to be conversational (“y’all”), and sometimes overwhelmed with excitement. Jamison is an amazing person who has accomplished so much. I strongly suggest having a dictionary and medical dictionary nearby.ĭr. Jamison says multiple times that “if you don’t know what that is look it up!” However, the editing mishaps (there are MANY punctuation, wording, and grammatical mistakes) and use of unnatural “big” words may make some things difficult for kids. But I read it because my 8 year old wants to read it and I thought I should read first to make sure it’s not above her reading level.
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