Who is Who in Women’s Suffrage

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Author
Anne Bussler
Topic/Subject Area
Gender, Gender Roles, Women; Politics, Government, Law, Civics
Historical Era
Rise of Industrial America, 1878–1899, Progressive Era, World War I, 1900–1928, Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945
Grade Level
Elementary (K–5), Middle School (6–8), High School (9–12)
Creation Date
2012
Last Revision Date
2024

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Summary and Objective

The students will understand that the Women’s Suffrage movement had many differing views and this led to interesting debates. Using a graphic organizer the children will research one notable person of the late 19th or early 20th century’s suffrage movement. They will research various primary and secondary sources and fill out the graphic organizer at the second/third web site link. The students would then present their person. (Possibilities could include speeches, plays, street encounters, interviews, debates, Seneca Falls replay. Students could present individually or as a group.)

Teaching Plan

Materials & Resources

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Teaching Plan

  1. Read Women Vote article published in Gazette and Courier from the Online Collection. What do you think of the cereal company collecting women’s votes. Why? Is this an accurate method for collecting votes? Explain your thinking.
  2. The students will choose one person who had an opinion on giving women the vote and the best way to go about it. (Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Alice Paul, Julia Ward Howe, Lydia Taft, Frances Wright, Ernestine Rose, Lucretia Mott, Margaret Fuller, Gerrit Smith, Frederick Douglass, Mary Ann M’Clintock, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, Harriet Burton Laidlaw) Print images of the Collection Items listed in Materials & Resources and/or provide online access to the items. The children will take notes using graphic organizers.
  3. For homework the students will write up their notes in the form required by their presentation. Student/students will assume the role of his/her person in skit, speech, letter, or article for a summative evaluation.
  4. As a class, the students will develop a rubric for evaluating the presentations.
  5. Provide the students with rehearsal time.
  6. The children will present their Women’s Suffrage person and be evaluated using the rubric they constructed.