Subject Area(s): Social Studies (U.S. History)
Grade Level(s): 11
Format of Library of Congress media:
Best Instructional Practices
Standards
Contemporary United States [VUS.14a]
Length
Two 90-minute blocks (one lesson in class; one lesson in computer lab)
Lesson Summary
Students will use Library of Congress images and the Library of Congress Web site to investigate how women's roles changed as a result of ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seated, and Susan B. Anthony, standing, three-quarter length portrait
Alice Paul, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, raising glass with right hand
Train to be a nurse's aide : Phone your boro Civilian Defense Volunteer Office.
New Britain, Connecticut. Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant
!["I've found the job where I fit best!" find your war job in industry, agriculture, business/ George R[...].](images/27.jpg)
This is the way washing clothes was done in the “good old days”.
Thelma V. Wick: oil colorist, photo finisher, secretary, Hultstrand studio.
Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year old mother of seven. February 1936.
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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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