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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Textual reading; Genre: Biography.
Amelia Earhart
and First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt
once left a dinner
party and took a
night flight above
Washington,
D.C.—in their
evening gowns!
Help this plane find
its way through the
stormy sky.
ong before there were airplanes, people dreamed of flying.
Courageous dreamers like the Wright Brothers made the
dream a reality.
The first pilots were always testing the
limits of speed, distance and altitude.
One pilot also challenged the role of
women. Her name was Amelia Earhart.
When Amelia was a young woman, it
was not considered "ladylike" to become
a pilot. Very few women had ever learned to fly. But Amelia
was raised to be her own person and to follow her heart.
In 1920, she paid $10 for a 10-minute ride in an airplane.
"As soon as I left the ground," she wrote later, "I knew I
myself had to fly." Little did she know that she would
become one of the world's most famous pilots.
Amelia Earhart set many flying records. As a crew member of
the Friendship Flight in 1928, she was the first woman ever to
fly across the Atlantic.
Four years later, Amelia flew her own plane across the vast
Atlantic Ocean alone.
Where did she land? Follow these instructions and use the
map to find out.
Take off from Newfoundland.
Travel 2 spaces east. Move 1 space north. Fly east 2
spaces and land safely on the island in the lower left
side of that space. Where are you?
Standards Link: History/Social Science: Students use map skills to determine location.
