11th
Grade
Lucretia (Coffin)
Mott, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right
Opener:
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In your assigned group, discuss and brainstorm the following
questions:
- What does it mean to be equal?
Explain. List examples.
- What does equality look like?
- What does equality not look
like?
Discuss the questions thoughtfully and thoroughly.
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After discussing those questions your group
will be given a big sheet of paper. On that paper you will title
the chart EQUALITY and make 3 columns with the following headings:
- Meaning
- What it looks like
- What it doesn't look like
Record what you have just discussed. You can write words or phrases.
You can draw symbols or pictures. Whatever way your group chooses
to represent the answers to the discussion questions. Be prepared
to present your ideas to the class.
-
Each group will present their ideas to the
class and we will have whole group discussion on what it equality
means.
Activity #1
Now that you have an idea as to what equality
is and what it isn't, you are ready to research the history of
the women's rights movement.. Computer Lab Time! You
will be working with an assigned partner. You and your partner
will be researching the background of the women's rights movement,
starting with suffrage. Cick on the link below to get resources
and complete the activity that goes with it. You will need to turn
in the activity for a grade. Only one activity per group needs
to be turned in.
Suffrage era
Click here to
obtain the worksheet you will print and use to analyze the
pictures and documents that you choose. (Only one per group
needs to be turned in.)
Activity #2
Now that you have learned about the struggle
that women have gone through to gain the right to vote, you will
research to learn about current issues affecting women.
You will now work individually.
Choose only one issue. You will complete the activity and turn
it in for a grade.
Click on the link below to begin your research
and complete the activity.
Current
issues
Click here to
obtain the worksheet you will print and use to research the
current event that you choose. Each student
will be working on their own and needs to turn in this worksheet.
Task
You will write a newspaper editorial. It will
include:
- a history of how women struggled
to gain the right to vote
- a summary of the current issue
affecting women today (the issue that you chose)
- your own opinion of the issue
- an answer
to the question "Did
suffrage accomplish full equality for women?"
Please see the rubric by clicking on evaluation
(left hand side of page) for specifics as to what to include
in your editorial.
Click here for
help writing an editorial.
12th
Grade
Lucretia (Coffin) Mott,
three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right
Opener:
-
In your assigned group, discuss and brainstorm
the following questions:
- What does it mean to be equal?
Explain. List examples.
- What does equality look like?
- What does equality not look
like?
Discuss the questions thoughtfully and thoroughly.
-
After discussing those questions your group will be given
a big sheet of paper. On that paper you will title the chart
EQUALITY and make 3 columns with the following headings:
- Meaning
- What it looks like
- What it doesn't look like
Record what you have just discussed. You can write
words or phrases. You can draw symbols or pictures. Whatever
way your group chooses to represent the answers to the discussion
questions. Be prepared to present your ideas to the class.
-
Each group will present their ideas to the class
and we will have whole group discussion on what it equality
means.
Activity #1
Now that you have an idea as to what equality is
and what it isn't, you are ready to research the history of the
women's rights movement.. Computer Lab Time! You
will be working with an assigned partner. You and your partner will
be researching the background of the women's rights movement, starting
with suffrage. Cick on the link below to get resources and complete
the activity that goes with it. You will need to turn in the activity
for a grade. Only one activity per group needs to be turned in.
Suffrage era
Click here
to obtain the worksheet you will print and use to analyze the
pictures and documents that you choose. (Only one per group needs
to be turned in.)
Activity #2
Now that you have learned about the struggle that
women have gone through to gain the right to vote, you will research
to learn about current issues affecting women.
Your group will be assigned one of the issues to
research. You will be researching both sides of the issue (pro
and con). You will be discussing the issue in a seminar discussion
format. Therefore, you need to complete the activity as a group
and turn it in for a grade after the discussion.
Click on the link below to begin your research and
complete the activity.
Current
issues
Click here
to obtain the worksheet you will print and use to research the
current event that you choose. Only one per group needs
to be turned in.
Activity #3
In a seminar discussion you and your fellow
group members will discuss the current issues that you were assigned.
You will receive a grade for this. Please
see the rubric by clicking on evaluation (left hand side of page)
for specifics.
Task
After the discussion you will choose one issue
and write a letter to your congressman or senator regarding one
of the following:
- encouraging your representative to support
your point of view or a current bill regarding the issue (go to http://thomas.loc.gov/ to find a specific bill related to your issue)
- inquiring as to what your representative's
point of view is on the issue of concern to you
The letter can be sent via email or mail but it
needs to be approved by the teacher before being sent.
- Click on the links below for help writing
a letter to your Congressperson or Senator.
- Click here to
find out who your member of the House of Representatives
is and his/her address.
- Click here to
find out who your senators are and their addresses.
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