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This The Suffragist: Educator's Guide for Classroom Video lesson plan also includes:
- The Suffragist (.html)
- Learning Lab: "The Suffragist"
- Joining The Movement
- Votes For Women
- Silent Sentinels
- Activity
- Worksheet
- Vocabulary
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Class members take on the role of historical investigators to determine why it took 40 years for women in the United States to get the right to vote. Sleuths view videos and analyze primary sources and images to gather evidence to answer the question of why it took so long.
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Concepts
suffrage, the suffrage movement, women's suffrage, critical thinking, primary source analysis, primary sources, the first amendment, primary source images, secondary source analysis, secondary sources, elizabeth cady stanton, woodrow wilson, persuasive arguments, women's history, women's history month
Instructional Ideas
- Have groups investigate current controversies over voting rights
Classroom Considerations
- Schedule extra prep time to share links to the images and the three videos with students
- Requires copies of the video note-taking sheets and the image analysis sheet
Pros
- Includes a list of key vocabulary words and a discussion rubric
Cons
- None