1. Virginia Mae Hope lived 60 years
How do you think the world
ago. The different 60 years in
will be world has changed
ways she could no have imagined.
from now?

2. Virginia do you think the world will ago.
How Mae Hope lived 60 years
stay the same 60 years the same in
The world has stayed from now?
many ways since she lived.

3. Virginia Mae you like to do to
What would Hope joined the
seek adventure?
Women Airforce Service Pilots
(WASPs) to seek challenge and
adventure, among othergo?
Where would you reasons.

4. Are women paid less than men
Because she wassame jobs in
for doing the a woman, Virginia
Mae Hope was paid less than
your time?
male pilots.
Why or Why not?

5. Childrenyou play these games? time
Do in Virginia Mae Hope’s
played kinds of games marbles, jacks,
What games such as do you play?
Have you ever made up your own game?
checkers, and hopscotch.
If so, what was it?

6. The Women Airforce Service Pilots
What is your favorite song?
(WASP) made up songs to
sing as they marched. Some of the
If you changed the words in your
songs were based on their daily lives,
favorite song to make it be about
like Zoot Suits and Parachutes,
your life, what would Song, and be?
The Mess Hall its new title
Yankee Doodle Pilots.

7. Do you know what you want
Virginia Mae Hope knew she wanted
to do when you are older?
to be a pilot. To become one,
she studied mathematics, physics,
Are you studying any subjects
navigation, meteorology,
in school that will help you prepare
and even Morse Code.
for what you want to do
when you are older?

8. What kinds of Hope had you like
Virginia Mae things do to work
verydo in your spare time?
to hard during flight school,
but she are your favorite to have fun.
What also made time activities
to do when you are not pilots liked
Virginia and her fellow in school?
to sunbath on the lawn,
listen to music and go to dances.

9. Have you ever kept a scrap
of paper or photo from a trip
or vacation?
Women Airforce Service Pilots
(WASP) kept scrapbooks to
If so, what was it?
remember their time at Avenger Field.
Why did you decide to keep it?
Where is it stored?

10. While Virginia Mae Hope was a
Do you ever write letters orPilot
Women Airforce Service emails
to your friends or family?
(WASP) she was away from her
friends and family who lived
Who do you write to?
in Winnebago, MN.
She wrote many letters home
to updateyou tell them about?
What do them on her many
adventures during the war.

11. Do you belong to a team,
organization, or group of people?
Fifinella, or Fifi, was the Women
Airforce Service Pilots’ (WASP)
What group do you belong to?
mascot. She was a feisty female
gremlin who had wings and
Does your group have a
wore goggles.
favorite mascot? What is it?
Fifi brought the women together
asyou could create a mascot
If a team and made them
for yourfeel likewhat would it be?
group a family.
Draw your idea.

12. Fifi’s job was to protect the Women
Airforce Service Pilots you are
Is there anything that (WASP)
from evil male gremlins that were
scared of?
known to break a pilot’s airplane
Whocause trouble during a flight.
or would you ask to help protect
Some pilotsfrom your fears? scared
you may have been
of the damage that the Gremlins
could cause.

13. Do you have a nickname?
If so, what is it?
Many of the Women Airforce Service
Pilots (WASP) went by nicknames.
If you could choose a nickname
Virginia Mae Hope’sbe?
what would it nickname
was “Ginny.”
Why would someone want to
go by a nickname?

14. Were you alive during an
American tragedy?
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese
attacked Pearl Harbor, an army
What was it?
base in Hawaii. Two thousand
Americans died. Many people
Do you remember where you were
remembered where they were
when they first heard the news.
when you found out about it?

15. Radiosdifferent types of technology
What were new technology during
do you use today?
Virginia Mae Hope’s time.
They allowed people to listen
What news, plays, the things that
to are some of and music
technology enableshomes. do?
inside their own you to

16. Do any of your family members
want you to act a certain way?
If so, how do they want you to act?
People in you thinkMae Hope’s
Why do Virginia they want
family thought she should act
you to act this way?
a certain way when she
was growing up.
Do you agree with their reasons
for wanting you to act
a certain way?
Why or why not?

17. Are there things that you do for
good luck, or do you have any
Women luck charms?
good Airforce Service
Pilots (WASP) would throw
a coin What are they?
in the wishing well for
good luck before a flight test.
Name a time when you
needed good luck.

18. Do you recycle things today?
Some materials were in short
If so, what do you recycle?
supply during World War II.
Recycling old rubber, scrap metal,
and paper important important.
Why is it was very to recycle
these things today?
These items were reused for the war.

19. Virginia family suddenly lost during
If your Mae Hope grew up most
the Great Depression in the 1930s,
of its money, how would it
when many children did not have
change your life?
enough food, shelter, and
clothing to live. Some children
How would you feel about
did not even go to school
the changes?
because they had to work.

20. Duringthere been a war
Has World War II many
in your lifetime?
people showed their support
for the United States by donating
Howtime or people show their
might money and by
support for their countryflag.
flying the American today?

21. Do you have emergency drills
at your school?
During World War II it was
What are they?
very important to prepare for
emergencies, such as attacks by
enemy bombers. Children to do
What have you learned learned
if an emergency happens?
how to protect themselves
by practicing drills in school.
Why is it important to
practice for emergencies?

22. Are there any famous people
Famous pilots like are
that you think Charles
role models today?
Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart
were role models for
Who are they?
Virginia Mae Hope.
What do these people do?

23. In the 1940s many Americans
worked for the war.
Sometimestoday had to be away
What jobs they require people
to say goodbye families families
from their to their for
and friends for aat a time.
many months long time?
Saying goodbye was a
Does hard thing your family
anyone in to do,
and the work was sometimes
have a job like this?
dangerous. Many families did
not know if they would
see each other again.

24. Are there any things today
that people think only boys go
Virginia Mae Hope liked to
or girls should do?
horseback riding, fix cars,
and hunt pheasants. In the 1930s
What arepeople of these that only
many some thought things?
boys should do these things.
Do you agree with this?

25. Have you ever worn
a uniform before?
The WASP wore uniforms
If so, why did on duty. one?
while you wear
They was it important that
Why called their uniforms
Santiago Blues.
everyone dress the same?

26. During World War II the government
rationed, or limited, the amount
Do you ever have to share things?
of food and other materials
a person could purchase.
Whom do you share with?
The Women Airforce Service
Pilots (WASP) sometimes had
trouble sorts of shoes,
What finding things
have you shared?
which wore out during marching.
Only one pair of shoes was
rationed it important to do this?
Why is per person per year.
Rationing allowed all people
to have their fair share.

27. During World War II, many
people began growing
“Victory Gardens,” fruits and
vegetable were hard to come by
If you had your own “Victory
because of rationing.things a
Garden,” what are 3 With
“Victory Garden” you it?”
you would grow in could
grow your own fruits and
vegetables and not have to buy
them at the grocery store.

28. During World War II, the United
Does the government ask you to
States government created
do anything today?
thousands of colorful posters to
encourage people to do things for
What are some issues that the
the war. The government asked
government might make a poster
women to work in factories and
about today?
grow “Victory Gardens.”. They even
asked children to join the American
Why would they ask you to do these
Junior Red Cross.
things?

29. Have you ever received anObama
In 2009, President Barack award?
awarded the Women Airforce
Service Pilots (WASP) the
What was the award?
Congressional Medal of Honor to
What talent or skill do youways
thank them for the many have
they you think you should get
that helped the United States
during award for? II?
an World War

30. Virginiayou have a role model?
Do Mae Hope and the Women
Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
served have they encouraged
What as role models to many
women who later do?
you to became pilots
or joined the military.

31. We had all good friends. It wasWe had short partbeautiful
“We’re the best of all worlds. such a all these of our
lives and we to fly, all our own diresctions,that we were
airplanes all went these great people but I feel very
comfortable with them…It’s a network, and we can count
associated with.
on each other”
-Barbara Jane Erickson
-Margaret “Maggie” Gee
IBehind me is my
love my home, but
Hello!of
hometown
I chose to leave it to go
My name is Virginia
Winnebago, Fieldin
to Avenger MN in
Mae Hope.
1925.
Sweetwater, Texas