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Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage

* State arguments for and against suffrage for women in the 19th and early 20th centuries
* Give examples of how those arguments were expressed in a variety of media
* Analyze a political cartoon from the 19th or early 20th centuries on the subject of suffrage.

Found in: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, History, March

Scripting the Past: Exploring Women’s History Through Film

Learning Objectives
# To learn about the craft of filmmaking and role of the screenwriter within the filmmaking process.
# To examine a first-person documentary narrative from a screenwriter’s point of view, focusing on the kinds of information needed to create a story that will bring the past to life on film.
# To gather contextual details required for a film treatment through historical research.
# To consider the relationship between historical narrative and the storytelling conventions of film.
# To produce a film scenario and script a scene based on the life of a historical figure.

Found in: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 9th Grade, History, Language Arts, March

Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies

# Name at least five First Ladies and describe something significant each did.
# State five traditional duties of First Ladies.
# Discuss some untraditional things First Ladies have done.
# Hypothesize about why some First Ladies are better remembered than others.

Found in: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, History, March

History in Quilts

The lessons in this unit are designed to help your students recognize how people of different cultures and time periods have used cloth-based art forms to pass down their traditions and history.

Found in: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, March, Visual Arts

Cultural Change

To examine some of the arguments used to win the vote for American women; to explore the cultural dimension of these arguments as reflected in their characterization of men and women; to weigh the rhetorical impact these arguments had in their time by writing counter-arguments from several standpoints; to think critically about the relationship between political ideas and

Found in: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 9th Grade, History, March