The book that I have recently
finished is The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. In the book, Callie is a young girl who is
exploring and learning about science from her grandfather. Calpurnia really wants to become a scientist
but doesn’t know if women can become one.
Then she learns all about Marie Curie and many other women
scientists.
Calpurnia and her grandfather
discover a new form of Hairy Vetch and Calpurnia learns about what it takes to
become a naturalist. Calpurnia learns
about finding specimens and writing down location and observations and the name
of what you believe it is. Calpurnia
learns about the scientific method of observation, and she also learns about
many things that she isn’t taught in school.
In school Calpurnia is taught about posture and how to hold your handkerchief. Her grandfather teaches her about gravity,
how the earth moves around the sun, the planets, how the earth is round and
much much more. These things today are
taught in school but back then they weren’t even taught to boys unless the boys
showed a specific interest in the subject. This shows that Calpurnia could be a scientist
because she knows more about science than most boys and because she wants to.
I highly recommend this book to
anyone interested in a girl’s journey to finding herself, science, or just life
in the early 1900s.
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