Subject Area(s): History 1877 - Present
Grade Level(s): 7
Format of Library of Congress media: Documents, Images
Best Instructional Practices
Standards
USII.1 - The student will demonstrate skills for historical and geographical analysis, including the ability
to
a) analyze and interpret primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding
of events and life in United States history from 1877 to the present;
USII.3 - The student will demonstrate knowledge of how life changed after the Civil War by:
e) describing the impact of the Progressive Movement on child labor, working conditions, the rise of organized labor, women's suffrage, and the temperance movement.
USII.4 - The student will demonstrate knowledge of the changing role of the United States from the late nineteenth century through World War I by
b) explaining the reasons for the United States' involvement in World War I and its leadership role at the conclusion of the war.
Length
1-2 50 minute class periods
Lesson Summary
As a result of this lesson, students will know:
- Common objectives and tactics of wartime propaganda
- The response of the women's suffrage movement to World War I (WWI)
- The impact of WWI on homefront activities and opportunities
- How propaganda uses symbols that are familiar and meaningful to achieve its objectives, and how symbols can align with or conflict with the values of society to create a desired response.
- How wartime affects society on the homefront, including the possibilities for improvement or decline of conditions and opportunities for minorities and women.
Mobilizing woman-power, by Harriot Stanton Blatch; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt
For every fighter a woman worker Y.W.C.A. : Back our second line of defence
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All of the materials used in this lesson plan are available for downloading as PDF Files and PowerPoint files, as appropriate. PDF Files can be viewed with the free Adobe Reader.
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