Women's history month. Interactive English

Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a Polish physicist, chemist, and feminist. She did research on radioactivity. She was the first woman professor at the University of Paris. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win 2 Nobel Prizes, one in physics in 1903 and the other in chemistry in 1911.
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Katherine Johnson
Katherine Coleman goble Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician. She was 1 of the first black people allowed to study at West Virginia University. She was known for her work on the United States’ aeronautics and space programs where she worked with early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.
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Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman in space. She was the third woman in space. She remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32.
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Michelle Kwon
Michelle Kwon won the World Junior Championship in 1984. The same year, at the age of 13, she came in the top 10 in the world senior championship. She became to World Champion in 1996, when she was 15.
She won a silver medal in the 1998 Olympics.
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Lauren Hernandez
Lauren zoe Hernandez is an American artistic gymnast. During her debut year as a senior gymnast, she competed as a member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team dubbed the “Final Five” at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Ultimately, the U.S. won gold in the team event. In the individual events, Hernandez earned the silver medal on the balance beam.
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Mia Hamm
Mariel Margaret Hamm-Garciaparra is an American retired professional soccer player, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and two time FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion. Hailed as a soccer icon, she played as a forward for the United States Women’s National Soccer team from 1987-2004.
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J.K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling is a British author. She wrote the Harry Potter books. She only uses the name J.K. Rowling for her books. The “K” stands for “Kathleen”, which was the first name of her grandmother.
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Beverly Cleary
Beverly Atlee Cleary was an American writer of children’s and young adult fiction. One of America’s most successful authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of her best known characters are Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse.
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was an American poet, author, actress, dancer, civil rights activist and more. She was the Inaugural Poet for President Clinton. Her memoir, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, was the first nonfiction best-selling book by an African-American woman.
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. civil rights movement.
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Ruby Bridges
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
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Helen Keller
Helen Keller was an American writer and speaker. When she was nineteen months old she became sick and lost her eyesight and hearing. When she was nineteen years old, Helen went to Radcliffe College in Massachusetts. She graduated in 1904 and was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Helen tried to help poor people and other blind people during her life.
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Georgia O’Keefe
Georgia O’Keefe was an American artist. She studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students’ League, University of Virginia, Charlottesville and Teachers College. She is mainly known for her modernist paintings. These paintings use both abstract and concrete elements.
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Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon, usually known as Frida Kahlo, was a Mexican Painter. She was known for her surreal and very personal works.
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