PROPOSAL

For my project I am doing: Emilie du Chatelet

Questions I'm Answering:

1.2 what did they accomplish in the field of scienece?
1.3 What did other scientiests think of them during their lifetime?
1.6 How did this person's accomplishments change the way that normal people look at the world?
2.3 What kind of relationship did this person have with their family members?
2.4 What kind of love life did this person have?
2.6 What did this person value?
3.3 What were the usual expectations of women in this society? What limits were there? How did gender expectations affect this person's work?
3.5 What was this person's standing in society and reputation during his/her lifetime?
4.1 Did this person's work influence their family life or vice versa?
4.2 Did this person's life love influence their love life or vice versa?
4.3 How was this person's work affected by the political or social values of their society?
4.5 Did the politics or values of her society influence the person's work or vice versa?
6.1 In the movie of this person's life, what actor would play her? Why? What director would make the movie and what would be the key scene?
6.2 Who would be this person's friend on facebook? What kind of status updates would you have seen her making?
7.1 Was she a genius in her own right, unfairly neglected?

Creative Project:
I will engage in an e-mail penpal relatioship with Ms. du Chatelet to discuss her work, her life and what it means to be a woman in a man's world.